Vancouver Island Trails Information Society
The Vancouver Island Trails Information Society is a non-profit society dedicated to providing accurate information to the public about parks and trails on Vancouver Island.
VITIS achieves this goal by publishing hiking trail guides covering Vancouver Island in three books (see below). These books are distributed by Orca Book Publishers.
Hiking Trails I
 Victoria & Vicinity
Covers the Capital Regional District, including Saltspring, Portland, and Sidney Islands; the Saanich Peninsula; core municipalities; Western Communities; Sooke west to Port Renfrew; West Coast Trail; and north to Spectacle and Oliphant Lakes.
- Over 100 destinations, ranging from neighborhood walks on pavement to week-long backpacking trips, including the Gowlland Tod and Juan de Fuca Provincial Parks, and the popular Galloping Goose Trail.
- 176 pages with index, 24 maps.
- Includes Hints & Cautions, historical notes, birding and nature information.
Thirteenth edition, 2007, compiled and edited by Richard K. Blier
ISBN13 978 0-9697667-5-9
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Hiking Trails II
 South-Central Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
More than five dozen destinations within the areas of Duncan; the Cowichan Valley; the Ladysmith/Cedar/Yellow Point area; the Nanaimo area and Gabriola Island; the Gulf Islands; and Parksville to Port Alberni and the West Coast, including Gibson/Klitsa Plateau, Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park and the West Coast Trail.
- 192 pages, including 36 maps (8 topographical), illustrations, photographs.
- Information on hiking clubs, helpful maps and their sources, useful books, and other sources of information.
- Hints and Cautions, and advice on logging road travel and backcountry hiking.
Eighth edition, 2000, compiled and edited by Richard K. Blier
ISBN 0-9697667-3-4, 18.95 CAN
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Hiking Trails III
 Northern Vancouver Island
including Strathcona Park
New areas: Malcolm Island (Sointula), Nootka Island (Nootka Trail), Beaufort Range (Mount Joan, Mount Curran, Mount Clifton, Mount Chief Frank)
Covers Great Central Lake to Cape Scott, including the trails and routes into and within Strathcona Provincial Park; Clayoquot Sound; Seal Bay and Grant Bay; Raft Cove, Schoen Lake and Cape Scott Provincial Parks; Sayward Forest and Snowden Demonstration Forest; Quadra Island; Campbell River, Sayward, Gold River, Nimpkish, Port McNeill, Port Hardy, Holberg and Winter Harbour areas.
- 224 pages; 19 topographical maps; 28 other maps
- 20 photographs; sketches
- Hints and Cautions; wilderness sanitation; wild animals; backcountry practices
- Club addresses; map sources; suggested reading; other sources of information; origins of place-names
Ninth Edition, 2002, revised and expanded by Richard K. Blier
ISBN 0-9697667-4-2, $25.00 CAN;
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