2008 Hog rally held in Sydney, Nova Scotia. File photo

The drive along the Cabot Trail is a bikers dream with twisting turns to
scenic look offs high above the Atlantic Ocean. It can only be described as
a piece of heaven.
If you haven’t already heard about it, or planned your next trip around it,
you are in for quite a surprise! The Cabot Trail is a wonder of nature that
you won’t want to miss - especially by motorcycle! Traveling the trail in
either direction offers spectacular views of what can only be described as a
natural work of art, a masterpiece.
Imagine standing on a mountain, 1500 feet above the sea, dark clouds and
pale sun competing for your attention. A summer shower has just passed and a
fine mist lingers on your face. In the valley below, a rainbow rises toward
you, arching so close you can almost reach out and touch it. Out at sea,
beyond the mountains, whitecaps are coaxed to life by an offshore breeze
that’s beginning to blow. This is the Cabot Trail. Winding its way northward
from Baddeck, into the Margarees and through the red, yellow and turquoise
villages of St. Joseph du Moine and Cheticamp, the Cabot Trail starts its
slow climb towards Cape Breton Highlands National Park, one in a family of
National Parks across Canada. For the next 106 km you will go in and out of
the National Park as you travel on the Trail. It follows the sea northward,
up and over the awesome French and MacKenzie Mountains to Pleasant Bay, up
again over North Mountain, turning inland through Cape North. The Cabot
Trail eventually meets up once again with the sea and from Neil’s Harbour
you will follow the southbound coastline through the Ingonishes, over Smokey
Mountain, and back down to where the sea and the road meet eye to eye. Once
you’ve walked for miles along the ivory sand of North Bay beach, hiked a
cliff-side trail on top of “old Smokey”, or watched from your campsite in
Meat Cove as whales perform an impromptu water show, you’ll wonder why you
waited so long to come. Almost everyone who has seen the Cabot Trail longs
to come back. That’s a fact. Your trip around the Cabot Trail will be
memorable. That’s a promise.

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