During the summer season the demand for accommodation is high with hotels and motels filled to capacity. Accommodation facilities currently provide more than 400 motel and hotel rooms, three campsites, numerous bed and breakfast operations and a variety of eating establishments. Flower festooned boulevards and spacious tree-lined Market Street provide a relaxing atmosphere for travelers wishing to browse through the many interest stores and shops. Stroll along the waterfront and you will see a bustling harbour, where fish boats, cruise ships and seaplanes come and go year round. Across Hardy Bay, you can see a bulk oil plant and the B.C. Ferries terminal.
Tugboats also make their rounds, pulling log booms from the dry land sort at the head of the Bay.
A walk down to Fisherman's Wharf brings you within sight of fish processing plants, busily taking their silver harvest during the summer months. Follow the seawall to the Rotary and Kinsmen Parks and keep a sharp eye out on the beach for ancient petroglyphs on the flat rocks or continue up Park Drive to the Gwa'Sala'Nakwaxda'xw Tribal Council's big house project. Local attractions of interest to tourists include the Port Hardy Museum and Archives, Seven Hills Golf Course, logging and forestry tours and salmon hatchery tours. Native Culture Culturally the North island is the centre of a thriving renaissance in the art and culture of the Kwakiutl Indians, world renowned for their magnificent masks and dances. Adjacent to Port Hardy is Fort Rupert, an historic Kwakiutl Village where the opportunity exists to see native carvers working on totem poles or other artifacts.