Along the way, the vegetation changes to Sitka spruce forest as the trail approaches the shoreline. This is another easy trail on which to pack a picnic lunch. The trailhead is just off the entrance road to Wickaninnish Beach and the museum. Drive along this park road to a parking area located a short distance beyond the Florencia Bay turnoff. This is a self-guiding trail with interpretive posts.
Trail brochures are available at the trailhead.
With little drainage to the beach, the water stays in shallow depressions. Most of the trees are shorepine. Peat moss grows throughout the bog, separated by little hills or hummocks where you'll see hemlock, red cedar and yellow cedar. Here, the pines are so severely stunted because of little nutrition, that they grow to a height of only 12 to 15 feet. There's a parking lot at which signs direct you to the two trailheads.