Homestead Trail in Cavendish Grove
Homestead Trail in Cavendish Grove
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Homestead Trail in Cavendish Grove
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13.1km
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Cavendish Grove’s Homestead Trail is wonderfully varied. Starting from the well-known Cavendish Beach, you’ll hike through tranquil spruce forests and past idyllic lagoons to New London Bay, before heading back over bridges, dunes and fields.
The 13-kilometre (8-mi) loop begins with a longer section through the forest, past several beautiful picnic spots on the shore of New London Bay. It's worth taking a break at one of these and enjoying the views over the red stretch of sand. The bright red colouring is due to the soil’s high iron content.
You’ll cut slightly inland, past fields of potatoes, wheat and hay, before rejoining the coast and walking back along Cavendish Beach to your start point.
Last updated: February 28, 2025
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130 m
Cavendish Beach
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5.65 km
Rest area with a view of New London Bay
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Homestead Trail, Prince Edward Island
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8.45 km
4.60 km
< 100 m
Surfaces
10.2 km
2.71 km
183 m
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Trail Reviews
Thursday and Friday were hiking-free days🚷 because we had to drive a somewhat longer distance by car 🚗. 🐖 because it drizzled almost all day on Thursday and on Friday Prince Edward Island opened every possible lock for us 🌧🌧. What a friendly welcome🤨. 09/26/2024: Alma 👉 Shemogue 09/27/2024: Shemogue 👉 St. Peters Bay Goodbye New Brunswick 😥 Welcome Prince Edward Island (PEI) I have included some pictures of photo stops in this tour for information😊. But now to today's 🥾 tour, which took us to Cavendish. The path was consistently made of firm, crunchy sand and therefore suitable for flip-flops🩴. You wander through bushes on a flat stretch and have beautiful views over wet meadows 🐟 and agricultural fields🍞🌽. At the end we also visited the small quarree at Cavendish Beach. Here there is a kilometer-long dune range and a corresponding sandy beach🏖. The hiking trail and the landscape are very different to those in the national parks in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The big WOW came when one bald eagle 🦅 after another suddenly appeared 🤩😍. There were also a few other birds around, such as the American robin, the blue jay🐦 and the golden woodpecker🔨 CONCLUSION:🦅🦅🦅🦅 The laptop cannot find WiFi in our new accommodation😐. That's why the photos are not labeled and unfortunately mixed up😥.