The Trans Canada Trail
With a variety of terrain and at a length of 21,500 kilometers, the Trans Canada Trail is the world’s longest recreational trail. This long distance hiking trail visits all ten Canadian provinces and all three territories.
This long distance hiking trail is made up of more than 500 local and regional hiking trails which will be joined to form one trail.
Today, the Trans Canada Trail is 70 percent complete. When the trail is finished you will be able to hike all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. If you do not find that a big enough adventure there is also a section of the trail that heads up to the Arctic Ocean as well along sections of the Mackenzie River and Overland Trails.
The Trans Canada is a recreational trail so you may find people cycling, skiing, horseback riding, canoeing or snowmobiling along some sections. What you can do along almost the entire length of the trail though is hike.
Hiking the Trans Canada Trail
In Ontario the waterfront trail heads along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario passing historic Old Fort Henry in Kingston, Toronto and the orchards of the Niagara Peninsula.
Heading west into Alberta you hike along the Iron Horse Trail. In central British Colombia along the Kettle Valley Rail Trail with its many bridges rebuilt after a forest fire destroyed it a few years ago.
Although the Trans Canada Trail is not yet totally completed you might want to get started now hiking on this, the longest long distance trail in the world.
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You have a really cool site-LOTS of information and products. But let me point out something new. There is a new trail in British Columbia. It is a coastal hike that is similar to the West Coast Trail. It is essentially what the West Coast Trail was about 20 to 25 years ago. At the northern end of Vancouver Island, Cape Scott Provincial Park gives hikers an incredible array of trails that access this uninhabited thumb into the Pacific Ocean. In 2008, BC added a 45 kilometer section onto the eastern side of Cape Scott Park, known as the North Coast Trail. Together, the North Coast Trail and Cape Scott Provincial Park make up an incredible journey along the coast, moving through the immense temperate rain forest and through a long history of exploration and attempted settlement in a remote area. It might be worth adding this trail into your sight so that people can begin to know about it!