In my opinion fall is the best time of year to hike. The weather is cooler, the leaves change adding beautiful color to the landscape, and best of all there are no flies. The forests are also much busier in the fall because of hunting season. During the 2013 hunting season in New Brunswick there

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What better way to cool off after a summer hike than to hit the beach. The following is a list of my top 5 picks for trails near sandy beaches in the province that are great for swimming. There are also many beautiful rocky beaches along the Bay of Fundy that are great for photography

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Bonus videos from 2015 at the bottom. The following are my favorite five New Brunswick waterfalls to swim in: 1. Moosehorn Falls – The Moosehorn Trail at Fundy National Park starts at Laverty Falls and travels down along Laverty Stream until the stream bed turns into rock. The large granite slabs have been carved by

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I received an e-mail from a Hiking NB user a few weeks ago asking for ideas for a campsite that would require a 2-4 hour hike to access that is maybe near a lake. The following is my response with all of the backcountry campsites I could think of that fit the requirements. I thought

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Publié le 7 décembre 2013 par James Donald Les liens ci-dessous mènent vers des pages disponibles en anglais seulement pour le moment. À l’arrivée de décembre, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : c’est le temps de troquer les bottines d’été pour des bottes d’hiver doublées, et de sortir ses raquettes. Rien n’égale le silence

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In July of this year I received an e-mail from Sarah Russell, telling me about a hiking trip her and her partner were planning, from St. John, to Fredericton, to Miramichi, and then into Nova Scotia or to the fundy coast. The full trip would be on foot and they wanted my advice on what

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It’s December and that means we have to put away our hiking boots and get out our winter boots and snowshoes. There is nothing better than the silence of the forest after a fresh snowfall but there are some things you should remember before heading out. There are three main differences between hiking and snowshoeing.

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By having young kids I am sometimes limited by when I can go hiking. Sometimes that means near or after dark when they are in bed. The good news is that the edge of the day is usually the best time for landscape photography. After the kids were in bed last friday night I took

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This was a response to an e-mail I received asking about my top 5 picks for hiking areas in the province. This is what I wrote back and I thought I would share it with you. Fundy National Park should be on the list but it was left off because the person was already familiar

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