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The Cabot Trail is a scenic highway on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] It is a 298 km (185 mi) loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park .
The Cabot Trail Relay Race is an annual 276.33 km (171.70 mi) relay race around Cape Breton's Cabot Trail. [1] The race takes place over 24 hours in 17 stages and features up to 70 teams and 1,200 runners. [2] [3] The race begins and ends in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. [4] The annual event began in 1988, when just 6 teams participated. [5]
Joe's Scarecrow Village was a collection of scarecrows located in a field beside the Cabot Trail, a Cape Breton highway with a high volume of tourists. The scarecrows were dressed in a variety of costumes, including those of fisherman, a wedding party, school children, celebrities, and politicians. [3]
A plaque at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site. Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes; Alexander Graham Bell School, Chicago, Illinois; Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, the Bell estate on the peninsula of the same name
The Skyline Trail is a seven-kilometre, looping, hiking trail at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies on the western side of the Cabot Trail, near French Mountain's summit. This trail is well known for its scenic views, but also for the 2009 fatal coyote assault on Taylor Mitchell. The trail’s busy hours are ...
The Cabot Trail scenic highway also encircles the coastal perimeter of the plateau. While the coastal areas of Inverness and Victoria counties along the plateau are home to several dozen small fishing and tourism-related communities, the interior of the plateau has no public roads and very little human presence, making it one of Nova Scotia's ...
Located nearby, the Wilkie Sugar Loaf trail can be accessed from the Bay St Lawrence Road, 1.15 kilometres (0.71 mi) north of the entrance to Cabots Landing Provincial Park. The trailhead is at 46°57'11.76"N, 60°27'39.66"W (N46 57.196 W060 27.661) and is marked by orange flagging tape and two yellow stones.
Panorama from the Freshwater Lake Lookoff. Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. [2] The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada [3] and covers an area of 948 square kilometres (366 sq mi). [4]