Advocate III
NOTE: I posted this last summer in the thread North-East OB Presence and received some interest/likes from @Chris Jones and possibly @Ironhide Fx4, but not many others. So I'm posting here in Overland Trip Planning to see who else may be interested.
I have no definite dates as yet, and my own participation may depend on when I can get in some shops out west for some work I want done to my van.
I would like to limit this to four or five vehicles, max, but may be gone longer than many might like, so am willing to entertain the notion that some may like to do part but not all, or may like to come up at a different time during this trip and meet up then. All sort of up in the air and flexible, right now, but I'm putting it out there to see what interest there may be.
My main goal is to explore trail possibilities in the three provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia with a secondary goal of including not just back country but exploring some of the cites, towns, and villages encountered along the way.
Once I/we have things nailed down a bit more, I'll put it in Rally Point Events if we need to.
Here's the original post, edited a bit:
I think it'd be a blast to get a few of us together to do the Cabot Trail. Head up from somewhere in Maine like Portland (or Bar Harbor near Acadia NP perhaps?) up the coast of Maine to St John, New Brunswick, then over to PEI (an island province with red sand, white sand, and black sand beaches), then take the big ferry from Woods Island PEI over to Nova Scotia and across the Canso Causeway (deepest causeway in the world), up around the north side of Bras d'or Lake to Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail.
While the Cabot Trail is a two-laned paved road, and not a lot of off-road ops I know of personally, there are some spots I'd like to check out on Cape Breton, like Middle River Wilderness Area, the French River Wilderness Area, Cape Smokey Provincial Park, and of course Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 235,000 acres where the mountains meet the sea. The scenery and vistas of the Cabot Trail easily rivals California's Big Sur, in my opinion.
According to the OB Member Map we have some active members in NB and NS and one on PEI we should reach out to about good spots for four-five vehicles to camp overnight, and if they know of any good back country roads we can explore.
Here are some links on the Cabot Trail:
http://www.novascotia.com/explore/t...VCVgNCh2L5guUEAAYASAAEgJO1PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.cbisland.com/cabot-trail/
http://www.cabottrail.com/
http://www.cabottrail.travel/
Here's a very preliminary route, one I've done a few times, though long time ago. There's a wicked long bridge now from New Brunswick to PEI, though the ferry that ran there was just awesome, handling train cars and semi-trailers on one deck, autos on another, and passengers on the top deck. One of my favorite Maritime memories is passing another ferry going the other way at dusk, deck lights illuminating train cars, toots of the ship's horns, etc. There still is a ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia, though much shorter, which I'd love to do again.
Here's a link to the google map, where you can change way spots: https://goo.gl/maps/SvYStNpwW432
Lots of possibilities to explore. As I said, I may be gone longer than many can do, and though I don't have a definite time frame in mind for how long, I like being gone for a month or more, often longer. I don't expect everyone can do that.
Let me know if you're interested or have input on possible dirt roads/back roads/dispersed camping spots in NB, NS, or PEI and maybe we can get something going.
Let me know, too, what you drive, what kind of gear, and what experience you have with being off-road and on the road for longer trips.
If this trip works out in a small group, I'm planning on doing a longer trip to St John Newfoundland and then up to Newfoundland/Labrado and around the St Lawrence Seaway, though may just leave from Cape Breton if I'm already up there:
https://goo.gl/maps/SM2Gz1NKUYT2:
Let me know if you're interested in just that part, too, or in just the Maine coast, etc.
This is the first part of what I hope will end up a cross-Canada trip ending in the Yukon, and then into Alaska, then down the west coast of the states.
Dry roads and open skies,
Road
I have no definite dates as yet, and my own participation may depend on when I can get in some shops out west for some work I want done to my van.
I would like to limit this to four or five vehicles, max, but may be gone longer than many might like, so am willing to entertain the notion that some may like to do part but not all, or may like to come up at a different time during this trip and meet up then. All sort of up in the air and flexible, right now, but I'm putting it out there to see what interest there may be.
My main goal is to explore trail possibilities in the three provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia with a secondary goal of including not just back country but exploring some of the cites, towns, and villages encountered along the way.
Once I/we have things nailed down a bit more, I'll put it in Rally Point Events if we need to.
Here's the original post, edited a bit:
I think it'd be a blast to get a few of us together to do the Cabot Trail. Head up from somewhere in Maine like Portland (or Bar Harbor near Acadia NP perhaps?) up the coast of Maine to St John, New Brunswick, then over to PEI (an island province with red sand, white sand, and black sand beaches), then take the big ferry from Woods Island PEI over to Nova Scotia and across the Canso Causeway (deepest causeway in the world), up around the north side of Bras d'or Lake to Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail.
While the Cabot Trail is a two-laned paved road, and not a lot of off-road ops I know of personally, there are some spots I'd like to check out on Cape Breton, like Middle River Wilderness Area, the French River Wilderness Area, Cape Smokey Provincial Park, and of course Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 235,000 acres where the mountains meet the sea. The scenery and vistas of the Cabot Trail easily rivals California's Big Sur, in my opinion.
According to the OB Member Map we have some active members in NB and NS and one on PEI we should reach out to about good spots for four-five vehicles to camp overnight, and if they know of any good back country roads we can explore.
Here are some links on the Cabot Trail:
http://www.novascotia.com/explore/t...VCVgNCh2L5guUEAAYASAAEgJO1PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.cbisland.com/cabot-trail/
http://www.cabottrail.com/
http://www.cabottrail.travel/
Here's a very preliminary route, one I've done a few times, though long time ago. There's a wicked long bridge now from New Brunswick to PEI, though the ferry that ran there was just awesome, handling train cars and semi-trailers on one deck, autos on another, and passengers on the top deck. One of my favorite Maritime memories is passing another ferry going the other way at dusk, deck lights illuminating train cars, toots of the ship's horns, etc. There still is a ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia, though much shorter, which I'd love to do again.
Here's a link to the google map, where you can change way spots: https://goo.gl/maps/SvYStNpwW432
Lots of possibilities to explore. As I said, I may be gone longer than many can do, and though I don't have a definite time frame in mind for how long, I like being gone for a month or more, often longer. I don't expect everyone can do that.
Let me know if you're interested or have input on possible dirt roads/back roads/dispersed camping spots in NB, NS, or PEI and maybe we can get something going.
Let me know, too, what you drive, what kind of gear, and what experience you have with being off-road and on the road for longer trips.
If this trip works out in a small group, I'm planning on doing a longer trip to St John Newfoundland and then up to Newfoundland/Labrado and around the St Lawrence Seaway, though may just leave from Cape Breton if I'm already up there:
https://goo.gl/maps/SM2Gz1NKUYT2:
Let me know if you're interested in just that part, too, or in just the Maine coast, etc.
This is the first part of what I hope will end up a cross-Canada trip ending in the Yukon, and then into Alaska, then down the west coast of the states.
Dry roads and open skies,
Road
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