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The Cabot Trail weaving
through the highlands,
seen from the Skyline Trail

3 Mountain, which, at 1,500 ft
(457 m), is the highest point
CAPE BRETON in the park.
The trail’s final descent is
into the Aspy River Valley,
ISLAND where a gravel road leads to
the base of the 100-ft (30-m)
high Beulach Ban Falls.
~ Sydney @ from Halifax g n 96 Hwy 4,
Port Hastings; www.cbisland.com 2
The largest island in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton has a Sydney
wild beauty that makes for some of the most impressive
scenery in Canada. Eagles soar over windswept coastal ∑ cbisland.com
villages, while inviting pubs are alive with the sounds The only city on Cape Breton
of Celtic music and fine single-malt whisky, evidence Island, Sydney is the second-
of the islanders’ close ties to the Scottish Highlands. largest town in Nova Scotia.
With a long history as a
mining center and once the
1 Just past French Lake, the location of the biggest steel
short Bog Walk is a boardwalk
Cabot Trail trail through a highland fen,
with educational panels
∑ pc.gc.ca
describing the ecosystem,
From the rolling highlands, home to rare orchids. Visitors
sprinkled with sparkling may even catch a glimpse of
streams, to fine sandy beaches, the park’s many moose grazing
the island’s 185-mile (298-km) here in a wetland marsh.
Cabot Trail provides one of Crossing the French and
the most memorable drives Mackenzie mountains, the trail
in Canada. Entering the Cape descends dramatically to the
Breton Highlands National Park charming old community of
from the west, the trail ascends Pleasant Bay. It then re-enters
along the flanks of the coastal the highlands, crossing North
mountains. The 24 lookout
points along the trail offer far-
reaching views of the highlands
rising from the sea. Continuing The Big Ceilidh Fiddle
inland, the trail travels across (2005) by Cyril Hearn,
the highland plateau. port of Sydney
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