Cycling the Annapolis Valley could keep you busy for an entire summer! This is a description of the primary route presented in The Nova Scotia Bicycle Book. It is a selected through-route, which brings you across the region. It samples a few of the prime areas. If your time is limited, perhaps this through-route could be supplemented with one of the smaller day tours out of Wolfville.

Tour 5 follows the western half of the ride. On the eastern side, Tour 8 outlines details on the Starr's Point area, and Tour 10 describes Wolfville information. Small communities lie every few kilometers, except for the stretch along the shore. You have a comfort not found in other regions of Nova Scotia. In most places of the province, stores and sheltered stopping places are limited. Here you have many villages, with their general stores. In addition, Highway #1 is not far off-route, which is a continuous stretch of communities.

The guide outlines two options, a high road , and a low road ". The first option is a far different environment from the valley. Here villages are connected by roller coaster shore roads. A few hide, alone at the end of dead-ends. They each sit in solitude, visited daily by the world's highest tides.

Low Road Options : This will take you on a much flatter route and rejoin the high road option just north of Kingston.

Nova Scotia Bicycle Book
Gary Conrod
308 pages, 5 1/2 x 8, paper
ISBN 0-920890-80-8

 

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