Where Was Alone Season 2 Filmed? The Location, Explained

Alone season 2 was filmed at Quatsino, near Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the same stretch of Canadian coast the show used for its first season. Quatsino Sound is only reachable by boat or float plane, and the show worked with the Quatsino First Nation, on whose territory the site sits, to place the ten contestants along the sound's bays and headlands.

Terrain, climate, and why this site is hard

Northern Vancouver Island alternates between steep, muddy temperate rainforest and rocky beaches and headlands, terrain that punishes movement as much as it punishes hunger. Quatsino Sound averages around 130 inches of rain a year, so contestants are rarely fully dry, and the ground itself can turn to thigh-deep mud between camp and a fishing spot. Days shorten through the fall the way they do anywhere at this latitude, which matters less for extreme cold than it does for drying gear and finding enough light to fish and forage before the rain sets back in. The island holds one of the highest concentrations of cougars and black bears anywhere, alongside wolves, and the surrounding water brings salmon, seals, and sea otters within reach of anyone who can fish or trap effectively.

That last point is what shapes the season's numbers. The field averaged 33.8 days, and the tap-out log leans heavily on the mental and physical toll of a wet, cold coastline rather than outright starvation: Larry Roberts left at day 64 citing hunger and a mental breakdown, and two of the earliest exits were driven by the site's predators rather than food. Tracy Wilson left at day 8 and Desmond White left before even settling in, both after bear scares near camp. Jose Martinez Amoedo, a former Spanish Foreign Legion special forces member, capsized on the maiden voyage of a kayak he had spent weeks building from bent timber and was pulled from waist-deep water near hypothermia, ending his run at day 59. A rainforest coast this wet and this thick with large predators tends to break people psychologically before it starves them, and even a strong background in hard training does not protect against a single bad accident on the water.

How the season 2 field fared

David McIntyre, a survival instructor from Michigan, won by outlasting the other nine for 66 days. He built a raised sleeping platform off the ground with a thick hemlock-bough mattress and leaned hard on a hand-made gill net and fish and crab traps, losing roughly 35 pounds in the first five and a half weeks before regaining some of it by the time of extraction.

Placement	Contestant	Days	Reason
1	David McIntyre	66	Winner
2	Larry Roberts	64	Hunger and mental breakdown
3	Jose Martinez Amoedo	59	Fell off kayak into river
4	Nicole Apelian	57	Missed her kids
5	Justin Vititoe	35	Had nothing left to accomplish
6	Randy Champagne	21	Did not like being alone
7	Mike Lowe	21	Missed his wife
8	Tracy Wilson	8	Bear scare
9	Mary Kate Green	7	Split tendon with axe (evacuated)
10	Desmond White	0	Bear scare near camp

Runner-up Larry Roberts came within two days of the win, a tighter finish than the raw numbers suggest given how much of the field cracked mentally before day 60. For how the show's other Vancouver Island season played out on nearly identical ground, see our season 4 location piece, and the locations hub maps every site the franchise has used since.