Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

Nova Scotia'S Largest Provincial Park At About 42 Square Kilometres; The Highest Cliffs In Mainland Nova Scotia At Roughly 185 Metres, A 51 Kilometre Coastal Trail, And The Three Sisters Sea Stacks On The Bay Of Fundy · Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia

Cape Chignecto is where mainland Nova Scotia runs out into the Bay of Fundy, and it does so spectacularly: CLIFFS OF ROUGHLY ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE METRES, THE HIGHEST ON THE MAINLAND, dropping into water with the greatest tidal range on earth. The park is about forty-two square kilometres and is NOVA SCOTIA'S LARGEST PROVINCIAL PARK, established in 1998 on land that had been logged and farmed and was allowed to go back. The COASTAL TRAIL runs fifty-one kilometres around the headland as a full loop, typically three to four days, and it is the hardest established hike in the Maritimes - relentlessly up and down, with sections that are genuinely exposed. THE THREE SISTERS, sea stacks standing off the cliffs, are the image everybody knows. At low tide you can walk out onto the sea floor at Red Rocks; six hours later there is fifteen metres of water where you stood.

Red Rocks, Advocate Harbour, Cumberland County, Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

SEASONAL. THE PARK OPERATES ROUGHLY MID-MAY TO MID-OCTOBER, when the visitor centre, the campgrounds and the backcountry sites are staffed and serviced; OUTSIDE THAT PERIOD THE PARK IS CLOSED and the trail should not be attempted. A DAY-USE FEE AND BACKCOUNTRY CAMPING FEES APPLY, and ALL OVERNIGHT HIKERS MUST REGISTER AT THE VISITOR CENTRE - backcountry sites are reserved and capped, and July and August book well ahead. THE 51KM COASTAL LOOP TAKES MOST PARTIES THREE TO FOUR DAYS and is genuinely strenuous; staff will ask about your experience and they are right to. THE TIDES GOVERN EVERYTHING ON THE SHORE: the Bay of Fundy range here is enormous, some shore sections are passable only at low tide, AND A TIDE TABLE IS NOT OPTIONAL. There is no cell coverage on most of the trail.

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