Destination Guide

The Tablelands: Walking on the Earth’s Mantle Drive south from Woody Point in Gros Morne National Park and the landscape changes in the space of a few minutes. Green, forested fjord country gives way to a wide, bare massif the colour of rust. No trees. Almost no plants. Loose rock running up to a flat

Cape Breton in the Off-Season: What Only Locals Know Ask anyone who lives on Cape Breton Island when they would choose to travel it, and almost nobody says July. They say late September. Some say the first two weeks of June. Almost none of them say the peak weeks when the island is fullest, which

The Celtic Roots of Cape Breton Drive the Cabot Trail and you’ll pass road signs in two languages, and the second one isn’t French. It’s Gaelic. Not as a heritage gesture or a tourism flourish, but because Cape Breton Island holds one of the last communities outside Scotland where Scottish Gaelic has been spoken continuously,

5 Cabot Trail Hikes to Do Instead of the Skyline Trail Type “Cabot Trail hike” into any hiking app and the Skyline Trail comes up first. Most reviews, most photos, that boardwalk headland half the internet has already seen. It’s a genuinely good trail. It’s also the one where you’ll share a cliff edge with

Peggy’s Cove Beyond the Postcard: What Most Visitors Never See You’ve seen the photo. The red and white lighthouse on the granite, the ocean behind it, the sky doing something dramatic. It’s one of the most reproduced images in Canadian travel and for good reason — it’s a genuinely beautiful composition. But here’s the thing

The Ultimate Cabot Trail Guide: Stops, Hikes & Insider Tips There’s a moment on the Cabot Trail — somewhere between Cheticamp and Pleasant Bay, where the road climbs away from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the whole Atlantic coast unfolds below you — when even people who’ve driven this route a dozen times go