A Fall Hiking Festival in the spectacular Cape Breton Highlands.
Hike the Highlands Festival
September 13-19, 2025
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 – (Nov. 26, 2024)
1) A big thank-you to all the hikers who attended this year Hike the Highlands Festival. We enjoyed meeting you and sharing our views with you. Thank-you to all our volunteers for their time and commitment including our board of directors. Thank-you to our partners in this year’s festival – CBHNP, DCBA, ACOA, and Municipality of the County of Victoria
2) Next year festival dates are September 13-19, 2025.
3) Subscribe to our regular monthly newsletter and keep up with all the news. Our next newsletter will be coming out on Dec. 15, 2024. 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!
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
The 14th Annual Cape Breton Highlands 3 Peaks Challenge took place June 22, 2024. Teams hike 3 mountains in one day. They are Roberts Mtn., Corney Brook, and Acadien. Check out this short video on last year’s event.
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