A Fall Hiking Festival in the spectacular Cape Breton Highlands.

Hike the Highlands Festival
September 13-22, 2024 
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada


A ten-day hiking festival on the Cabot Trail and Northern Cape Breton that features guided hikes, evening activities & presentations, the hiker distance award, opening & closing ceremonies and a photo contest.

Festival Updates & News – (March 7, 2024)

1) Hike the Highlands Festival Calendar  is  available for hikers to purchase and who would like a special memento or gift to someone for the holiday season. Click the above link for details on how to purchase.

2) Registration is now open for the 2024 Hike the Highlands Festival. Those who register online before August 4th will get a long sleeve t-shirt if your purchase a festival pass & park pass or a festival pass.

3) The 14th Annual Cape Breton Highlands 3 Peaks Challenge will take place June 22, 2024.  Teams of 4 members will hike three mountains in one day. Registration is now open for teams. Please note – the date for this year’s event has been pushed back close to a month to avoid the heat. 

4) Subscribe to our regular monthly newsletter and keep up with all the news. Our next newsletter will be coming out on March 22, 2024 or earlier.  Please note when you subscribe to our newsletter, you will get another e-mail a bit later asking you to confirm. The festival is following Canada’s Anti-Spam guidelines & regulations approved in 2014 

 

Come Hike with Us!

Hiking Cape Breton Highlands

A Great Line-up of Hikes

The daily schedule of hikes & daily program of activities for 2024 Hike the Highlands Festival is available now. It will be updated regularly.

3 Peaks Challenge

3 Peaks Challenge

The 14th Annual Cape Breton Highlands 3 Peaks Challenge will take place June 22, 2024.  Teams hike 3 mountains in one day. They are Roberts Mtn., Blueberry Mtn., and Acadien. Check out this short video on last year’s event.

Smokey Towers

GROUP PHOTOS

A tradition started by our guide co-ordinator, Lisa Dixon, each hike we ask everybody to get together for a group photo. Here are 2019 Family Photos featured