Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality

by Michael Haynes

The Halifax Regional Municipality encompasses the cities of Halifax, Dartmouth, and Bedford, and several towns and villages; lakes, rivers, and streams, part of the Shubenacadie Canal, and an intricate and beautiful coastline. Beautiful, well-tended, easily accessible trails throughout the region offer outdoor pleasure to all, and Trails of Halifax Regional Municipality outlines gentle excursions for people of all abilities. Michael Haynes has selected 25 representative trails. Haynes gives careful, detailed information about each in a "Trails-at-a-Glance" chart and in synoptic form at the head of each trail description. As well as describing the trail and illustrating it with maps and photographs, Haynes includes sidebars on features unique to the trail or region.

Genres: Nonfiction, Canada

Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Michael has written guides on hiking and biking trails in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec and Ontario. He has been a regular contributor to CBC Radio in Halifax, Sydney and Ottawa. In addition to his books and radio appearances, Michael has published numerous articles about Canada's outdoors, both locally and nationally.

In addition to writing about trails, Michael also works in trail development and active transportation. He has been a member of the consulting teams that have produced trail plans for communities such as Sault Ste. Marie, Chatham-Kent, and North Grenville, and active transportation/bike plans for Oromocto, Corner Brook, Lunenburg, and Essex County. Michael has also presented at numerous Canadian trail workshops, and at Australian, and American national trail conferences.

Michael has hiked in every province in Canada, fifteen states in the U.S., Australia, and several countries in Europe and Asia. He tries to walk every day: between, 2010-2014, he walked/ran 26,000,000 steps, or 22,000 km - a daily average of more than 12 km.

Follow Michael’s activities on Twitter @HikerHaynes

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I love us a good trail and this book has many -- many we have already experienced but a couple of new ones. Exactly what I was searching for. Good stuff!