There are plenty of activities to keep your family and friends active. We have room for you to bring your own volleyball or badminton nets, play bocce ball or croquet on the grounds. You could even hold a horseshoe tournament, take a bicycling tour, hike down the lake, rent a kayak, go fishing or just take pictures of the area.

Pitka Bay Resort offers you anything that you can dream up. There are also various outlying areas to explore. Take a day hike up Mount Pope, spend the day on the water,  fish to catch (and release if you like), or just spend the day capturing images of the wildlife and surrounding breathtaking scenery. And, at the end of the day, relax by your lakeside fire and take in the sunset and twilight hours of Stuart Lake.

In the fall and wintertime, activities change a bit. With September and October the hunting season starts. As the leaves change and the landscape quiets, it is that time where man once again tries to outsmart the wildlife. Once hunting season has ended, the lake begins to freeze and soon the sports of ice fishing snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, hockey and skating take over. The boots and mitts come on and winter has begun its journey.

There is a special kind of serenity in the wintertime here as the snow brings a hush to the world and all seems tranquil.

Recreation around the Fort St. James Area

Things to do in Fort St. James! Year round outdoor and indoor recreational opportunities include hiking and biking trails, ballparks, golf, fishing, hunting, water-skiing, canoeing, swimming, sailing and boating, alpine and nordic skiing, skating, hockey, curling, snowmobiling, dog sledding and camping.

Cultural opportunities include a Public Library, the Community Arts Council, an amateur theatre company and a movie theatre.

Fort St James is the home of the famous $5000 Stuart Lake Fishing Derby, the Cottonwood Music Festival, Thunder on Ice, the Caledonia Classic Dog Sled Race and the Fort St. James National Historic Site, a fully staffed 1800s era Hudson's Bay Trading post with guides dressed in period costume and ongoing historical enactments.