Walk Talk Blog

Alrighty, weighing in on my Island Walk sections hike over the past week. I am a hiking and backpacking lover, with a few long trails under my experience (Appalachian Trail 2018, Inca Trail, LHT, Batona Trail to name a few). I’m from New Jersey (East coast of the USA) and traveled by car to PEI. …

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.

Did you know that our beautiful dunes protect Prince Edward Island from erosion and flooding? In collaboration with Island Nature Trust and Nature Conservancy of Canada, Parks Canada is encouraging visitors to stay off the dunes as they continue to recover from the effects of Hurricane Fiona. It is vitally important for all of us …

As veterans of the Spanish Caminos, we were looking for something closer to home. As residents of the hot, dry, brown New Mexican desert, we were looking for something cool and green. We found everything we were looking for—and more—in the Island Walk. We started walking on May 4 and returned to Charlottetown June 3 …

Thank you for your interest in The Island Walk!  You may want to start your planning by ordering a guidebook. Click here to get the eBookClick here to get a paper copy of the Guidebook In terms of accommodations, most walkers are staying in B&Bs along the route. Many hosts will provide transportation to-and-from the …

If you’re walking Section 24-25 Souris to Howe Bay, on July 21-23, 2023, you will walk right by the Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival! This festival was created to preserve Prince Edward Island’s tradition of music. Today it celebrates a history of successful growth for 4 decades. Not planning your walk this summer? Not to worry! …

Prince Edward Island is known for its natural beauty and one of the best ways to experience it is by walking The Island Walk route!  Here are 10 bucket list-worthy views to see while completing The Island Walk. 1. Cavendish Beach This stunning beach is part of Prince Edward Island’s National Park,. It is located …

What an epic adventure this became! We began our Island Walk last September hoping to finish in October after 31 days of walking (we did one double WP day). However Hurricane Fiona had a different plan for us and for those walking mid-September. Along with everyone else, we were forced to abandon our walk after …

After a day of walking, discover more hidden gems. There are lots of opportunities to experience local culture at some of Prince Edward Island’s festivals and events. Four  Festivals and Events on PEI to Experience While Completing The Island Walk: 1. Small Halls Festival The Small Halls Festival is an exceptional Island experience. This award- …

After doing much research around the walk and realizing we (3 women friends and 1 husband) only had a few days we decided to make our main departure point, Fortune Bay in Souris, and we rented a beautiful home there and researched the different points we could walk from there. We veered off the Island …

My friend Judi Gosbee wanted to mark entering her 50th year and suggested completing the Island Walk. I jumped on board and agreed to do it with her. We started our first section 29-30 on January 1, 2022. The start point for this section is right near Judi’s house and seemed like a logical place …

by karengeterdone, karengeterdone.com It’s called an adventure for a reason. The unusual, exciting, potentially hazardous experience of taking on grand initiatives can be filled with the unexpected. Day 17 – Bayview to Cymbria – 28km We were on a major high after such an amazing day yesterday hitting the halfway point, both in such a great spot …

Fifteen minutes into a 3-day, 63-km long-distance walk, a pungent, overripe, fruity scent brought me to a halt.  What was that familiar aroma? A quick visual scan revealed the source—a cluster of wild apple trees, covered in ripe apples, lined the roadside!  This abundance of wild apples became a recurring theme on my recent Island …

By karengeterdone blog The last post had us arriving in Summerside finishing Day 4 of The Island Walk. Very happy to say we hit the Halfway Point yesterday! It was a celebration at the Waypoint sign 16 with 364 km completed of the 700km circumnavigation of PEI. To this point we’ve had to deal with a lot of …

As soon as I saw an article about The Island Walk, I knew it was a walk I (we) wanted to take. After two years of lockdowns and vaccines, a long walk to regroup and re-energize seemed to be just the ticket. I reached out to Bryson Guptill, bought his book, and started thinking about …

Dates: May 2022Days Walked: 31 Why does anyone decide to step away from their life for a month and walk 700kms? A time-out? An opportunity for reflection? A spiritual pilgrimage? Slow tourism? For me, all were reasons. Two weeks into the pandemic my middle son who lived with significant disabilities died from complications of non-COVID …

Anyone who has ever done a long distance walk knows how easy it is to plan. Basically you just plan to get to your starting point….and that’s it! You know that for the next 30 days or so all you have to do is get up and start walking…..and nowhere is the infrastructure better than …

My 250 km Island Walk adventure didn’t start when I arrived in Charlottetown last October 2021. It began 8 years earlier when I set out from the town of St Jean Pied de Port to start the Camino Frances, the first of many caminos. I had hoped to walk again in the spring of 2020 …

On September 3rd, 2021, I began The Island Walk, travelling the spectacular beaches and charming byways of Prince Edward Island. On October 3, I completed 714 kilometres. The tad more distance than the official 700km route was due to a slight detour, specifically a visit to Lennon House in Rustico. I raised funds during my …

While Islanders will be watching fishermen set their lobster traps this May, there will be new activity to see along PEI’s coastline this year.  From Charlottetown to Miminegash, Seacow Pond to Gaspereaux, Islanders will be seeing hikers (and cyclists) on red dirt roads, secondary roads and the Confederation Trail.  These long-distance trail enthusiasts will be …

Submitted by Bryson Guptill Yes, we were the first four who did the Island Walk. Nora, Marian, Danny and me. Lots of people thought we were crazy – walk for a month? In October? Will anything be open? Well, we did it, and it was wonderful. So many great ocean views. So many interesting back …

Submitted by Bernie Brunino I needed to get out of the house. The on again / off again Covid restrictions were really taking their toll. The hiking plans that I’d laboured over in the early stages of the pandemic went for naught when health uncertainty in Europe just didn’t give me the comfy feeling I …

Submitted by Karen MacLeod-Wilkie Phil Cousineau* describes pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor “for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.” When I completed the Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2016, it revealed something that mattered deeply to me – an old dream to become an author. …

Submitted by Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador After months of thinking, designing, and coordinating, directional signs for the Island Walk are now popping up all over the Island. The signs are being installed by highway crews from the PEI Department of Transportation and they conform all with all applicable signage laws and regulations. In addition …

Sporting Intentions is celebrating the grand opening of their new location at 190 Minna Jane Drive, Charlottetown, PE, this October 2020 and we wanted to celebrate with them by sharing the top 5 hiking gear products that you can pick up at Sporting Intentions!

By Nora Wotton In general, everyone who decides to do a long distance walk, does some training.  We increase the length of our training walks and try to incorporate different terrain, such as hills.  We want to avoid having to abandon our walk due to lack of conditioning.  We also want to break in our …

By Nora Wotton I’ve done four long distance, multi-week walks, so I often get asked, Why?  You think that after the first time, I’d have a good answer, but I can’t say that I do.  I’m really not sure why I like doing these relatively arduous walks. They’re hard. I’ve pretty well always carried all …

By Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador When we walked the Island Walk in October we were especially excited about walking along the shore in the PEI National Park.   Our official route stayed on the main road, but our preference would have been to detour into Cavendish Grove at 2.17 km (right across the road from …

Written by Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador When we completed our Island Walk in October, 2019, one of our favorite walks was our beach walk to East Point, PEI along the Northside beach.  Beach walks are always special – sand dunes, marram grass, and ocean waves crashing at your feet. The Northside beach is especially …