Trans Canada Trail in Saskatchewan Blog

Over 1,450 km of the Trans Canada Trail (formerly the Great Trail) are in the prairie province of Saskatchewan.  During two months in the fall of 2021 we walked its rail trails, footpaths, and dusty range roads, photographing, birding, and blogging as we went.  Defying all our expectations, we marveled at sand dunes in Good Spirit Provincial Park, took more ferries than in any other province, followed in the footsteps of the Red River Resistance on the Trails of 1885, watched a stream of migrating Snow Geese fill the sky from one horizon to the other, and learned that the prairies are anything but flat! 

"We move through this world on paths 

laid down long before we are born." 

                                        Robert Moor

This hiking and adventure blog documents our #Hike4Birds on the Trans Canada Trail in Saskatchewan. We invite you to Come Walk With Us by exploring our daily blog entries, where we share photographs and stories of the birds, natural landscapes, histories, challenges, and highlights we experienced while traveling across Canada on foot. Happy Trails!  

Hike4Birds on the Trans Canada Trail in Eastern Saskatchewan

Soundtrack for Saskatchewan

Inaccessible Trails, Duck Mountain PP to Kamsack 

Hard Realities, Kamsack to Canora 

A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way, Canora to Good Spirit Lake PP 

Nature Beauty and Long Concessions, Good Spirit Lake to Yorkton  

Exploring (and Birding) Yorkton Saskatchewan

Paying it Forward, Yorkton to Melville

Visiting and Enjoying Melville SK

Walking Saskatchewan's Spectacular Qu'Appelle Valley

Trains, Bison, and Storms, Melville to Qu'Appelle Valley

Leave No Trace, Across the Qu'Appelle Valley 

Dedication and Disconnected Trails, to Fort Qu’Appelle 

Navigating Water Routes, Into Regina

Hiking the Trans Canada Trail from Regina to Saskatoon

History, Diversity, and Greenspaces, Downtown Regina

Crossing the Capital on the TCT, to West Regina 

Racing Weather, Navigating Closures, Regina to Lumsden 

Living the Dream, 365 days on the Trans Canada Trail

Prairie Mud, Brilliant Beauty, Lumsden to Buffalo Pound 

Walking in Circles, Buffalo Pound to Sun Valley to Buffalo Pound 

Never Say Never, Buffalo Pound to Moose Jaw

Historic Wonders, Artistic Beauty: Around Moose Jaw

Mistiming Everything, Two Days to Eyebrow, Two Days in Eyebrow 

Practicality and Kindness, Eyebrow to Douglas Provincial Park

Amazing Trailways, Douglas Provincial Park to Elbow 

Summer Sunsets, Elbow to Danielson Provincial Park

Waterway, Danielson Provincial Park to the Water Trail 

Challenge and Reward, Hiking into Saskatoon

A River Runs Through It, Exploring Saskatoon 

Missteps and Exhaustion at the Crossroads

Running on Empty.. 

Exploring the Northern Trails of Saskatchewan, Canada

Science Trek, Saskatoon to Warman

Hobbling On, Warman to the Battle of Fish Creek NHS 

Fall Migration, Fish Creek NHS to St. Laurant Ferry

Prairie Winds and Fall Colours, Wingard Ferry to Lac la Peche

How Many Fields does it take?, to Somewhere 

Visual Feast of Landscapes, to North Battleford 

Sites of 1885, Exploring North Battleford

‘This isn’t the TCT you are looking for’, North Battleford to Vawn

Their Hopes our Heritage, Vawn to Edam 

Migration and Unspoken Realities, Edam to Turtleford

Moving Forward Together, Turtleford to St. Walburg 

Birding Trails and Borders, St. Walburg to Onion Lake

Symmetry, Symbolism and Signs, To the Alberta Border 

Going With the Flow ... (as plans shift, yet again) 

Words of Wisdom from Saskatchewan

Big Dreams, My body has been a Good Friend... 

The goal of our #Hike4Birds was to inspire people of all ages, physical abilities, cultural backgrounds, orientations, and identities to reconnect with nature through birds and Citizen Science.  To learn more about our project, how you can get involved, and ways to support our work, please visit the Come Walk With Us website.