This loop is one of the finest cycling routes in Nova Scotia! The Nova Scotia Bicycle Book suggests this tour as perhaps the best of the available routes near the city. Despite being near Halifax, you will find this to be both a quiet and scenic outing. Coastline for all but a short stretch, the road dips in and out of fishing villages and past beaches. The route is hilly, but well worth your effort.

You will encounter only a moderate number of cars. There certainly will be far fewer, in comparison with its sister peninsula across St. Margarets Bay, through Peggy's Cove. The loop is in a counter-clockwise manner to best enjoy the shore. Expect changing wind conditions, as you circle the peninsula. Thick "pea soup' fog often rolls in at its point.

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

 

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