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Cabot Trail: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

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A 185-mile loop around the northern tip of Cape Breton Island — one of Canada's most spectacular coastal drives. The road climbs through the Cape Breton Highlands, plunges to fishing villages, and reveals the raw Atlantic at every turn.

Stops on This Tour (12)

  1. 1
    Baddeck — Alexander Graham Bell Museum The inventor of the telephone made his summer home here on the Bras d'Or Lake. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  2. 2
    Englishtown Ferry A two-minute cable ferry crosses St. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  3. 3
    Cape Smokey Provincial Park The road climbs Cape Smokey — often shrouded in fog that rolls off the Atlantic. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  4. 4
    Ingonish Beach A rare combination — a freshwater lake and an ocean beach separated by a narrow barrier beach. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  5. 5
    Neil's Harbour A working fishing village clinging to the rocks. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  6. 6
    Cape Breton Highlands National Park — Skyline Trail The signature hike of the Cabot Trail — a boardwalk along cliff edges 300 meters above the Gulf of St. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  7. 7
    Pleasant Bay A whale-watching base camp on the western coast. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  8. 8
    Lone Shieling A replica Scottish crofter's hut sits in a 350-year-old hardwood forest. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  9. 9
    Chéticamp — Acadian Culture A vibrant Acadian community where French is the first language. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  10. 10
    Margaree Valley The Margaree River is one of the finest Atlantic salmon rivers in the world. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  11. 11
    Lake O'Law Rolling hills and pastoral farmland mark the western approach back to Baddeck. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app
  12. 12
    Baddeck Return — Bras d'Or Lake The loop closes at Bras d'Or Lake, a vast inland sea connected to the Atlantic. 🔒 Hear the full story in the Nara app

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