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Griffith Island (CYOK) is a private grass airstrip on Griffith Island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, serving the private Griffith Island Club, a sporting and hunting retreat that owns most of the island. The single runway and remote island setting make it an unusual and scenic destination for the simulator pilot, though access in real life is strictly controlled.
Griffith Island is a small island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, home to a single grass airstrip that serves the Griffith Island Club, a private sport-shooting and hunting club that has owned and used the island since the early 1970s. The field is not open to the general public, and its appeal to a simulator pilot lies chiefly in the island setting itself, the historic lighthouse at its tip, and the challenge of a short grass strip surrounded by the waters of Colpoys Bay.
The airfield sits on Griffith Island in Georgian Bay, one of three islands in Colpoys Bay along with White Cloud Island and Hay Island. It lies to the north east of Wiarton and north of Owen Sound, in Grey County, Ontario. The field sits at an elevation of 607 feet, at coordinates 44.8305 N, 80.9004 W.
Griffith Island has one physical runway, 10/28, a grass strip 2,709 feet long. There is no ILS.
No published radio frequency or air-ground service is recorded for this field; pilots should treat it as an uncontrolled strip with no instrument approach available.
No formal joining or circuit procedures are published for the airfield. Given its private status and single grass runway, arriving pilots should expect to fly a standard visual circuit with reference to wind and the surrounding water, using caution around the lighthouse structure near the island's edge.
The most prominent landmark on the island is the Griffith Island lighthouse, one of the six limestone Imperial Towers built in the 1850s, standing 25.9 metres high with a keeper's house alongside it; its light is visible for up to 27.2 kilometres. The island's position within Colpoys Bay, flanked by White Cloud Island and Hay Island, and its location north of Owen Sound and north east of Wiarton, provide useful reference points when approaching from the mainland.
Griffith Island lighthouse was one of six Imperial Towers erected along Georgian Bay in the 1850s, with construction of the tower and keeper's dwelling completed in 1857 following work begun in 1855 and 1856. The light was originally powered by whale oil, later kerosene, and was automated in 1955, after which the keeper's house fell into ruin, though the light itself remains operational. From the early 1970s the island has been owned by the Griffith Island Club and used privately for recreational shooting and hunting, with the airstrip built to allow authorised small aircraft to reach the island; a small portion of the island, containing the lighthouse, remains in federal government ownership.
The island and its airstrip remain in private use by the Griffith Island Club, a private sporting club, and the field is strictly off limits to the general public. Any visiting pilot would require prior permission, and there is no indication of public facilities, fuel, or scheduled operations at the strip.
