{"key":"cb848ba5db","origin":"osm","osm_id":"w1394434854","category":"Accommodation","subcategory":"Hotel / Motel","community":"Clo-oose","lat":48.8089143,"lon":-124.669317,"verdict":"include","name":{"value":"Nitinaht Lake Motel","source":"enrichment"},"description":{"value":"The Nitinaht Lake Motel is a year-round, nine-room motel operated by the Ditidaht First Nation on the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, reachable via roughly 62 km of active logging road from Lake Cowichan. It sits at the gateway to the West Coast Trail's third entrance and the famed windsurfing fjord of Nitinaht Lake, making it the sole covered accommodation in this otherwise roadless stretch of coastline. Rooms range from simple queen-bed units to two-bedroom suites with kitchenettes, offering a functional base for cyclists tackling this wild corner of the island.","source":"sonnet_4.6"},"website":{"value":"https://visitnitinaht.com/book-your-room/","source":"enrichment"},"address":{"value":"South Rd, Cowichan Valley, BC V0R 3E1, Canada","source":"review_edit"},"phone":{"value":"250-745-3844","source":"enrichment"},"email":{"value":null,"source":null},"route_slugs":[],"centrally_administered":false,"bike_parking_detail":null,"raw_osm":{"building":"yes","name":"Nitinat Lake Motel","tourism":"motel"},"enrichment_extras":{"reasoning":"The website at visitnitinaht.com/book-your-room/ provides detailed room descriptions, policies, and confirms the motel is open year-round, operated by the Ditidaht First Nation. The contact subpage explicitly lists the motel phone as 250-745-3844 and the things-to-do page corroborates it. No mention of bike-specific amenities (storage, charging, tools, laundry) appears anywhere on the site; the Nitinaht Visitor Centre and General Store is named as a nearby provisioning point on multiple pages, supporting a nearby grocery finding.","concerns":["OSM name is 'Nitinat Lake Motel' (missing 'h') while the website consistently uses 'Nitinaht Lake Motel'; website spelling used here and OSM record should be corrected.","Multiple subpages carry a fire-related booking suspension notice (near China Creek, Port Alberni); this may be outdated given the copyright date of 2024, but could indicate the site is not actively maintained.","Phone number 250-745-3844 sourced from website only; not present in OSM tags.","No civic address available in OSM tags or on the website."],"recommended_status_reason":"Real, open, year-round accommodation operated by the Ditidaht First Nation in a remote wilderness area; a valuable and likely the only covered overnight option for touring cyclists in this region.","confirmed_open":true,"contact_confirmed":{"phone":null,"website":true,"address":null}},"provenance":{"enrichment_run":"density","enrichment_model":"sonnet_4.6","verdict_source":"enrichment","category_source":"osm","category_correction_reason":null,"review_priority":false,"sidecars_applied":["subcategory","wow","price_tier"],"area_dedup":{"absorbed":"f5017de08e"},"subcategory_source":"osm_tag","subcategory_confidence":"high"},"required_criteria":{},"optional_amenities":{"Nearby grocery":{"value":true,"detail":"Nitinaht Visitor Centre and General Store (250-745-3999) is explicitly listed on the contact and things-to-do pages as a village facility; the getting-here page instructs visitors to stop there for gas and supplies before continuing past the motel","source":"sonnet_4.6","date":"2026-07-18"}},"unmapped_criteria":{},"region":"Vancouver Island","ownership":"Buy BC (independent)","indigenous_role":["Indigenous owned","Indigenous operated"],"indigenous_source":{"source":"ITBC","url":"https://www.indigenousbc.com/listings/nitinaht-campground-cabins/","original_original":false},"notability":2,"wow_evidence":"operated by the Ditidaht First Nation... sole covered accommodation in this otherwise roadless stretch of coastline... gateway to the West Coast Trail's third entrance","price":{"band":2,"band_key":"budget","label":"Budget","confidence":"medium","source":"motel_default","signal":"bare motel, no chain"},"tier":"info"}