Popular with hikers, campers, spelunkers, and fishermen, Port McNeill occupies a rich lumbering and fishing region in the scenic, untamed wilderness of northern Vancouver Island. Geologists and rock collectors will be interested in several nearby natural phenomena: the Vanishing River, which plunges underground into a maze of tunnels and caves; the Devil's Bath, a huge rock bowl continuously filled by an underground spring; and the Eternal Fountain, gushing from a rock crevice. All can be reached by logging roads in the summer. A shuttle service is operated by a ferry between Port McNeill, Sointula and Alert Bay.