Queen Charlotte City is the commercial hub of the Charlottes. The city is located on on Bearskin Bay on the southern point of Graham Island - the largest island in the Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago. The community is backed by Sleeping Beauty Mountain with views looking out over Lina and Robertson Island.

Queen Charlotte City on Graham Island is the government and administrative centre of the islands. The island community is the main location to access traveler amenities often needed on a road trip like gas stations, accommodations, a grocery store, ATM and laundromat. The operating hours for individual businesses do vary and should be checked. It is island time you know.

The main waterfront street is lined with restaurants, coffee houses, art galleries, gift shops, a pub and some accommodations. Queen Charlotte City is also the location for the island's hospital, library, police station and other provincial and federal government offices. Most everything is within walking distance.

Travelers arrive in Queen Charlotte City to either relax or to explore. When arrivals come to explore the area, one of the most popular adventures in town is the salmon charters, halibut fishing, steelhead and trout river fishing.

Other activities include wilderness camping, boating, off roading, hiking, bird watching, wildlife tours and Haida First Nation cultural interpretive tours.

Logging and commercial fishing once dominated this small city. But times are changing as eco tourism and the art history of the Haida people is attracting more and more attention.

The paved main street running through the village turns into active and deactivated gravel logging roads heading west leading to some waterfront parks with beaches like Kagan Bay.

Continue to follow the gravel roads up Sleeping Beauty Mountain near Queen Charlotte City to some of the regions hiking trails. One of which is the tough Sleeping Beauty Trail.