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10 Scenic Drives in Canada That You Shouldn't Miss
World class skiing, decadent European style cuisine, ornamental cathedrals, peaceful island life…Canada is a patchwork of thriving cities and majestic wilderness. Montreal beckons travelers with its French charm and booming cultural landscape. In Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is a vision of Frank Gehry architecture and national artistic treasures. The gleaming mountain ranges of Banff set a stunning backdrop for an exploration of the Canadian Rockies.
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1. Dempster Highway
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 93 reviews
Scenic highway near the Arctic Circle.
Reviewed By MarcelVanImpe - Ghent, Belgium
Driving the Dempster Highway is a kind of adventurous trip! You really need to be prepared to see unseen Beauty!!!
2. Icefields Parkway
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5.0 based on 1,845 reviews
Scenic highway cutting through breathtakingly beautiful mountain passes.
Reviewed By BCW_1016 - Charlevoix, United States
We drove it in our rental car leaving Banff at 7:30AM and did not get beck until after 4PM - so much to see! This is an absolutely beautiful drive with many places to stop to take in the marvelous views of mountains, lakes & streams and/or enjoy short hikes. You can see many glaciers on the mountains. We took the drive in mid September and the Aspen trees were a beautiful golden color against the backdrop of green pine trees. Our turning point was at the “Ice Field Center” where we walked up to the glacier. If you wanted to get up close and personal with the ice, tours are available - they take you out onto the glacier on a special bus and let you walk around for a few minutes. A very enjoyable day.
3. Highway 17 Scenic Drive
4. Route des Montagnes
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5.0 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By Mslater65
We drove from Baie-Saint-Paul to La Baie, overnighted in Chicoutimi and returned to La Malbaie after a cruise on the Saguenay River at one of the provincial parks. The next day we drove through Saint-Aime-Des-Lacs to another provincial park on the Malbaie River. The scenery during all our drives was spectacular and traffic was very light. The Saguenay River is 200 metres deep, tidal and partly salty and is very photogenic. We visited a number of cheese “farms”, an oyster mushroom farm and had some magnificent dinners in Chicoutimi and La Malbaie. The Charlevoix region is a jewel and a great are for a foodie road trip.
5. Route du Fleuve
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5.0 based on 92 reviews
Reviewed By JaroslawC3 - Montreal, Canada
You can see a beautiful landscape from the road, local towns with interesting architecture and saint-Lawrence River.
6. Sea to Sky Highway
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4.5 based on 1,492 reviews
A two-lane scenic highway passes both the Pacific Ocean and rugged mountain peaks.
Reviewed By TravelinSuz - Chandler, United States
What a gorgeous scenic drive! There’s waterfalls, trials to hikes, and cold water corals for scuba divers! So worth the time.
7. Lighthouse Trail
8. Sunrise Trail
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4.5 based on 8 reviews
Reviewed By 2015eastcoasters - Nova Scotia, Canada
A beautiful drive along the old #3 highway. Many interesting shops & art galleries to visit along the highway from Lunenburg to Halifax.
9. Stewart-Cassiar Highway
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4.5 based on 54 reviews
10. Cabot Trail
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4.5 based on 1,759 reviews
One of the most magnificent loop drives in North America treats visitors to the spectacular scenery of the Cape Breton Highlands.
Reviewed By Lets_Cruise_13 - Ottawa, Canada
On Tuesday August 20th, 2019, leaving Baddeck my wife and I drove the Cabot Trail which is a scenic highway completed in 1932 in northern Victoria County and Inverness County on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The Cabot Trail is 298 km or 185 miles in length and completes a loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park (the Park). That morning, at the Park’s East Gate we stopped to purchase two $7.80 adult day passes to drive through the Park. At the booth, the Park employee provided us with information on what to look for and other fishing villages to visit. The western and eastern sections of the Park follow the rugged coastline, with views of the ocean. The southwestern section passes through the Margaree River valley before passing along Bras d'Or Lake. Driving the Trail, we stopped at the many lookout spots in and outside the Park, such as Lakies Head, Neil’s Harbour, Rusty Anchor Restaurant in Pleasant Bay, Chéticamp and in Inverness to take photos of mountainous plateau, ocean views and fishing villages during our scenic drive through stunning landscape. What a marvelous day it was for travelling! For nature lovers, hikers or just anyone wishing to visit Cape Breton Island and the surrounding areas, the Cabot Trail and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a must to see as it provides beautiful scenes. We would recommend it to family and friends.
