Trails worth a Saturday.
Hand-picked, considered, not comprehensive. Each guide is a short list of trails around a theme — read it on the bus, pick one, leave your phone in your bag.
- Mont-Tremblant, Québec
Five trails past the resort village.
Tremblant sells you a ski village and a gondola — but the real walking is in the national park behind it, and on the old rail line through the valley.
5 trails → - Batawa & Trenton, Ontario
Five trails along the lower Trent.
Batawa is a shoe-factory town on a river; Trenton is where that river meets the bay. The walking here follows the water the whole way down.
5 trails → - Belleville, Ontario
Five trails along the Moira and the bay.
Belleville is built where the Moira River meets the Bay of Quinte — and most of its walking traces one or the other.
5 trails → - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Five ways into the river valley.
Saskatoon is built around the South Saskatchewan, and the Meewasin trails are how you get down to it — the paved spine, and the wilder edges off it.
5 trails → - Vancouver, British Columbia
Five walks, from the seawall to the second-growth.
Vancouver wears its wilderness close — a rainforest at the end of a bus line, a beach at the foot of downtown. Here are five of the best.
5 trails → - Pontiac, Québec
Four ways across a county that's mostly sky.
The Pontiac is farm fields and bush and one long rail line running the width of it. Shawville is the hub — here's how to cross it slowly.
4 trails → - Collingwood & the Blue Mountains, Ontario
Five trails under the escarpment.
Where the Niagara Escarpment meets Georgian Bay: a rail-trail along the water, the Bruce Trail along the ridge, and the climbs in between.
5 trails → - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Five walks around an old harbour town.
Lunenburg is a UNESCO waterfront and a working harbour — and a surprising amount of trail just past the last painted house.
5 trails → - Montréal, Québec
Four quiet ways up the mountain.
Mont-Royal is the one hill the whole city leans on — these are the paths that stay quiet, even on a Saturday.
4 trails → - Prince Edward County, Ontario
Five trails in a county built for driving.
The County is wineries and farm stands and two-lane roads — but the best of it is the few miles you can only cover on foot.
5 trails → - Toronto, Ontario
Five ravines worth a Saturday morning.
A handful of corridors threaded into the city — quiet enough to forget the traffic, short enough to walk before brunch.
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