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Hike Pesuta Shipwreck Trail, Tlell, British Columbia, Canada
The Pesuta Shipwreck Trail is a popular hiking trail on Haida Gwaii. The “Pezuta” a 264 feet (80.47 metres) long wood-hulled steam freighter that was built for US Shipping Board’s (USSB) WWI Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Shortly after the end of the war in early 1919, the ship was delivered to Seattle where it was considered excess by the USSB and subsequently slated for liquidation. Eventually finding its way to T'agwan Vancouver in 1927, the Pezuta was retrofitted for reuse as a lumber carrier, capable of carrying an incredible 800,000 feet (243.84 kilometres) of logs.
On December 11, 1928, a storm cuased the Pezuta to break free of its towline, running aground deep in the sand. After hull recovery efforts failed, local salvage operations stripped what they could before leaving the remnants of this massive vessel high on the beach.
Despite being subjected to nearly 100 years of punishing coastal weather, the iconic ship’s bow still juts from the sand exposing weathered wood, various metal implements, and rusted portholes.
The hike takes an average of 3 h 21 min to complete.
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