Our Island is renowned as a hiker’s paradise, a challenging beauty that demands exploration. Breathtaking landscapes await you on every Highland crest, low-tide beach, and serene trek through old-growth forest. Lose yourself in our wilderness. Discover our wild heart with each trail.
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
Everything tastes better when you eat outside! Have a hassle free perfect picnic with meals prepared by local restaurants. It’s as eas...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
Choose your own guided adventure to discover the Cape Breton Highlands National Park’s secrets. Awake your senses as you explore remote wa...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Ingonish Beach
As the darkness creeps in, listen for the haunting sounds of the night during the “Lantern Walk through Time” by Freshwater Lake. Or lea...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Chéticamp
Climb 365 metres above the Chéticamp River for panoramic views of the Acadian coastline, the Chéticamp river valley and the park’s h...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
A dramatic headland cliff overlooks the rugged coast from the end of this level trail. You can enjoy an eagle’s view of the Cabot Tra...
Regions: Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
This trail meanders along the Aspy fault, through an Acadian and mixed forest. As nature reclaims land once used for farming and logging, a ...
Regions: Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Community: Aspy Bay
Watch the waterfalls in the Aspy Valley below you as the river winds its way to the Atlantic. The name “Beulach Ban” is Gaelic, ...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
In keeping with Parks Canada’s mandate to protect the natural environment, a boardwalk keeps your feet dry as you walk while preventin...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Ingonish Centre
Hikers will marvel at the spectacular stands of hardwood trees, boulders bigger than cars, old abandoned beaver ponds, meadows, apple trees ...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Chéticamp
Follow a meandering brook through a hardwood forest to a small waterfall that marks the end of the trail. You are actually in a box river ca...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
You are 355 metres (1165 feet) above sea level! Hike from the top of the mountain about 6 kilometres down to a small ocean cove and grassy c...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
This scenic trail overlooks the Atlantic coastline and winds through a post-fire jack pine stand. This pocket of jack pine is significant be...
The Discovery Pass is your gateway to history, nature, and adventure from coast to coast to coast.
The Discovery Pass provides unlimited admission for a full year at over 80 Parks Canada national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas that typically charge a daily entrance fee.
Get Your Heart Pumping with these extreme and active adventures! Try your hand at windsurfing, go whale watching, hop on a jet ski, fly in a helicopter, and more.
Want to show off your Cape Breton adventure? Read through this blog to find your new favourite instagram hot spot this summer. Trust us, nothing says natural more than a nature photo.
In the last few years, winter culinary offerings have expanded greatly, and there are so many delicious ways to take a bite out of winter!
Have you wanted to take a weekend trip to Cape Breton in the winter but don’t know where to start? Here's an itinerary from our ambassador Kyler's visit to Cape Breton Island to help guide you on your next Cape Breton Island adventure!
Tammy Aucoin and Chris van den Berg are both local hiking and adventure ambassadors and nature lovers who reside in Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island. @capebretonhiker & @keepexploringcapebreton
