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The Scenic Route A step-by-step guide to hiking holidays.Un guide de randonnée, étape par étape. May 2025Text by Lola Augustine BrownIllustrations by LeeAndra Cianci We all know the benefit of getting our daily steps. Even a short walk helps clear the head and lower blood pressure. But long walks—those taken over days or even weeks—can …
Apr 28, 2025 The Island Walk was featured in Jennifer Bain’s article in the Lonely Planet as the #3 prettiest place in Canada! Thank you Jennifer! Read the full article on the Lonely Planet website.
Valerie Berenyi pedals at the pace of island life. April 16, 2025 I’ve long dreamed of cycling on PEI, Canada’s lovely island province. After all, Prince Edward Island is small and flat, so biking here would be a cinch, right? Well, not exactly, as it turns out. I first contemplated a week of riding from tip …
February 2, 2025 by Laura Meader Ever wanted to walk all the way around PEI? The people you’ll meet today have all tackled the 700km Island Walk – and all have personal reasons for this calorie-burning pilgrimage. Producer Laura Meader breaks a (tiny) sweat as she catches up with a few of them in her …
By Jim Morrison, Globe correspondent Updated October 11, 2024, 10:00 a.m. Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, has always punched above its weight. It is famously full of spectacular scenery and friendly, funny folks. The Island Walk, a new path knitted together from existing roads and trails, circumnavigates the island and showcases its views in full splendor. …
Cycling Through A Bucolic Paradise On Prince Edward Island FORBES – October 30, 2023 | 13 min to read By Jeanine Barone, Contributor St. Peters Bay EXCERPT: Cyclists and walkers often gravitate to the Confederation Trail, an almost 280-mile-long rail-trail along the corridor of the abandoned Prince Edward Island Railway. (And for those cyclists or walkers who are …
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie – Bryson Guptill’s Island Walk Guidebook sold more than 12-hundred copies and was used by many as they took on this 700 km PEI walking challenge. Now Bryson’s updated the guide and will drop by to tell us about it.
The Peterborough Examiner – Friday, September 15, 2023By Brendan Burke Local Journalism Initiative Reporter They’ve climbed the highest mountain peaks in 10 countries, overlooked Tanzania atop the towering Mount Kilimanjaro and scaled more than one of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountaintops. Otonabee-South Monaghan Township residents Karen Simpson, left, and partner Jeff Bauer completed the 700-kilometre Island Walk on …
TORONTO STAR – Saturday, September 9, 2023 | 5 min to read By Chloe Berge Special to the Star A pilgrimage on P.E.I.: My trip to see the new 700-kilometre Island Walk was a lesson in the power of slow travel What is it about lighthouses that we’re so drawn to? “Look!” I exclaim to my …
THE NEW YORK TIMES / USA TIMES – September 8, 2023 by Elaine Glusac Never underestimate the difficulty of a flat trail over a great distance. After my first five-hour day following the Island Walk, a new 435-mile trail that rings Prince Edward Island, in Canada’s smallest province, I limped into Points East Coastal Inn …
The Island Walk on The Social – 3 Aug 2023 Travel expert Heather Greenwood Davis shares some of the most beautiful hiking spots available from coast to coast to coast. “When I’m planning a hike I always want to get to a payoff, usually a viewpoint. You get to that viewpoint it’s almost like you’re …
Walking Canada’s Camino ~ A cancer survivor tackles the Island Walk, a 700-kilometre P.E.I. trail inspired by the pilgrims’ route in Europe. Appeared in everythingzoomer.com ~ August/September 2023 Read entire article here.
TRAVEL + LEISURE – October 15, 2022By Julia Eskins The route loops around Canada’s scenic Prince Edward Island. Avid hikers have another reason to visit Canada’s eastern coast in 2022. Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), affectionately known as “Canada’s Food Island,” is inviting travelers to circumnavigate its idyllic shoreline by foot on The Island Walk. The 435-mile …
BBC – August 18, 2022 By Carolyn B Heller A Canadian’s quest to design a pilgrimage-inspired path around Prince Edward Island is now the Island Walk, a 700km walking and cycling route. Pink and purple lupins swayed along Prince Edward Island’s Highway 101, where I’d just walked out of the town of Kensington. It was …
Prince Edward Island’s answer to the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in Spain, the Island Walk is a lesser known (for now) 700-kilometre journey that circumnavigates the island. CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC – April 1, 2022By Darcy Rhyno Anxious and frustrated. It’s not exactly the state of mind I was aiming for as I start out …
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – October 6, 2021By Heather Greenwood Davis In the fall of 2019, Bryson Guptill hiked 435 miles of Prince Edward Island over 31 days. The island resident traversed green hills and farmland, chatted with strangers along red-dirt roads, and watched herons and cormorants swoop along the coast. That trek with three friends sprouted an idea …
