Port Eliza Airport

Economic. The airport was a private airstrip built exclusively to serve the Tahsis Company's Port Eliza logging camp. The airport was abandoned when the logging camp ceased operations and was dismantled. With no industry or community to serve, the airstrip became obsolete.

The airport is completely abandoned and derelict. Satellite imagery of the location shows the clear outline of a single runway that is now heavily overgrown with grass, shrubs, and small trees. There are no remaining buildings, hangars, or any other aviation infrastructure. The site is slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding temperate rainforest and is not used for any purpose.

Port Eliza Airport was a private, gravel airstrip that served as a critical transportation link for the remote Port Eliza logging camp on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Operated by the Tahsis Company, the airport facilitated the movement of personnel, mail, urgent supplies, and company management to a location that was otherwise difficult to access. It played a key role in the efficiency and operation of the mid-20th-century logging industry in this rugged region of British Columbia.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The economic driver for its existence (the logging camp) is gone, and there is no significant population or industry in the immediate vicinity to warrant the substantial cost of clearing, rebuilding, and certifying the airstrip. Reopening is considered extremely unlikely.