Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

Trans Canada Trail Hiking Guide and Information Atlantic to Pacific Canadian Hiking Guide and Blog Tips and Advice for Trekking Across Canada Welcome to the Come Walk With Us Trans Canada Trail hiking blog! Over the span of 556 days over the span of four years, we hiked 14,000 km from Cape Spear, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia on the world's longest recreational pathway. In this travel and adventure blog, we share photos and stories from our long-distance walk across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail (formerly the Great Trail), as well as gear reviews, trail information, and advice for planning your own thru-hikes. Epic landscapes, stunning wildlife, fascinating histories, daunting challenges, and countless acts of random kindness were all part of our journey across Canada. We hope you enjoy it! NEWFOUNDLAND Our #Hike4Birds across Canada on the 28,000 km long Trans Canada Trail began at Cape Spear, Newfoundland on June 1, 2019. Atlantic Puffins, whales...

After walking it from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Arctic, we learned that the answer is much larger than a line on a map. Why the Trans Canada Trail is Important When we set out to walk the Trans Canada Trail , we had no idea how completely the journey would change the way we understood both the Trail and the country it crosses. Over 556 days, we walked on our #Hike4Birds   Expedition almost 14,000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, becoming, to our knowledge, the first couple to complete that crossing on foot and the first to document the journey continuously as we travelled. We were also only two among a remarkably small number of people who have walked across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail, joining long-distance trekkers including Dana Meise, Sara Jackson, Dianne Whelan and Mel Vogel, who travelled with Malo. Later, we continued north toward the Arctic Ocean, following the land route through western Canada and the North. The number of people who have tra...

Understanding Accommodation, Remote Trail Sections, and the Realities of Walking Across Canada   One of the questions we are asked by people considering and planning a long-distance journey on the Trans Canada Trail is whether it is possible to walk across Canada without carrying camping equipment. After all, the national pathway passes through hundreds of communities, incorporates established recreational trails, and frequently follows roads and former railway corridors. Could someone simply arrange accommodation each evening, staying in hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, or other available lodging rather than carrying a tent and sleeping outdoors?   For shorter sections of the trail, and even some extended regional journeys, the answer is certainly yes. However, for someone intending to walk the entire Trans Canada Trail independently, without outside assistance, the practical answer is no. There are substantial portions of the network where accommodations are simply unava...

Is the TCT Dangerous?  Were you Afraid? Was it Safe? "Security is mostly a superstition.” Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith Of all the questions we are asked about our six years walking across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail , one of the most difficult to answer is also among the simplest: Was it safe? The difficulty is not that we are reluctant to discuss the risks we encountered, or that we experienced nothing unnerving or frightening during our journey. Rather, it is that safety is a complicated and often deeply personal consideration. What one person regards as an acceptable risk or terrifying may be entirely unreasonable to someone else. A situation that leaves one walker feeling uncomfortable may scarcely register with another, while an experienced wilderness traveller who feels perfectly at ease in bear country may be considerably less comfortable walking along the shoulder of a busy highway.   There is also an important difference between feeling safe and actually bein...