01Visited

Footprints

National parks and places I love
Visited

Killarney Provincial Park

Ontario

Quartzite ridges of the La Cloche Mountains over Lake Huron's turquoise water — my favourite place to hike.

02On my list

To-Go List

Where I'm headed next — leaning hard into Newfoundland & Nova Scotia
Newfoundland & Labrador07
On my list

Gros Morne National Park

Newfoundland

A UNESCO World Heritage Site — boat the Western Brook Pond fjord and walk the Tablelands, exposed mantle from deep inside the Earth.

On my list

Signal Hill

St. John's, Newfoundland

Where Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless signal in 1901. Cabot Tower crowns the harbour above colourful St. John's.

On my list

Cape Spear

Newfoundland

The easternmost point of North America — the first place on the continent to see the sunrise, beside its 1836 lighthouse.

On my list

L'Anse aux Meadows

Newfoundland

A UNESCO site and the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America — Vikings stood here a thousand years ago.

On my list

Bonavista

Newfoundland

Puffins nesting on sea stacks where John Cabot is said to have first sighted the New World in 1497.

On my list

Twillingate

Newfoundland

The heart of 'Iceberg Alley' — 10,000-year-old icebergs drift past the coast each spring and early summer.

On my list

Fogo Island

Newfoundland

One of the 'four corners of the Earth' by old Flat Earth Society lore — wild granite shores, hiking trails and the striking Fogo Island Inn.

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Cabot Trail

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

One of the world's great coastal drives, looping the highlands of Cape Breton above the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

On my list

Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Nova Scotia

The Skyline Trail at sunset — a headland boardwalk where moose graze and the highlands plunge into the sea.

On my list

Peggy's Cove

Nova Scotia

Atlantic Canada's most famous lighthouse, standing on wave-smoothed granite at the edge of a tiny fishing village.

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Old Town Lunenburg

Nova Scotia

A UNESCO World Heritage Site — the best-preserved British colonial town in North America, lined with bright red waterfront warehouses.

On my list

Kejimkujik National Park

Nova Scotia

A Dark-Sky Preserve and a National Historic Site — canoe routes and Mi'kmaq petroglyphs under some of the darkest skies in the east.

On my list

Burntcoat Head

Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

Home to the highest tides on Earth — walk the ocean floor at low tide, then watch 16 metres of water roll back in.

Elsewhere in Canada02
On my list

Bruce Peninsula National Park

Ontario

The Grotto's glowing turquoise sea cave on the Niagara Escarpment, above the clearest water on the Great Lakes.

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Banff National Park

Alberta

Canada's first national park — glacier-fed lakes like Louise and Moraine set against the peaks of the Canadian Rockies.