The Cabot Trail loops 294 km around the top of Cape Breton Island, climbing headlands where the Nova Scotia highlands drop straight into the Atlantic. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The loop climbs over headland after headland around Cape Breton's north end, running through Cheticamp and along the coast to Pleasant Bay before it turns inland and back down through Baddeck to close the circle. The last stretch, a rough footpath until then, was finished in 1932, closing a loop road builders had spent years cutting one headland at a time.

Alexander Graham Bell built a summer estate at Baddeck in the 1880s, and his descendants still own the 600 acre property on Bras d'Or Lake today. Pilot whales feed in the waters off Pleasant Bay from June to October, alongside minke whales, watched daily from small boats that leave the same harbours the trail passes on its way around the cape.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Blue Ridge Parkway, Going-to-the-Sun Road and Icefields Parkway.

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