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.
British Columbia
1 guideSaskatchewan
1 guideOntario
6 guides- Sandbanks & Prince Edward County, Ontario
Five swims around the Sandbanks.
Sandbanks sits on the largest baymouth barrier dune formation in the world, and the shallow water behind it is some of the warmest swimming on Lake Ontario.
Swimming5 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.
HikingCycling5 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.
HikingCycling5 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.
HikingCycling5 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.
HikingCycling5 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.
Hiking5 trails →
Québec
3 guides- 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.
HikingCycling5 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.
HikingCycling4 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.
Hiking4 trails →