Lumsden Pond Provincial Park
When Nova Scotia Power built a high dam across the Black River to generate hydroelectric power, the deep v-shaped river valley flooded, creating a deep lake known as Lumsden Pond. To make use of this new recreational facility, the provincial government created Lumsden Pond Provincial Park adjacent to the dam. The park is small, popular [...]
Read moreQueens County Nova Scotia parks
If mainland Nova Scotia has a true wilderness, it reaches its deepest point where Queens, Annapolis and Digby Counties meet. The 200-odd centimeters of rain that falls here every year gives the place a lush, rainforest-like feel. The geographical features are archetypes of the Canadian wilderness. Huge wooded lakes with names like Molega, Ponhook, Kejimkujik [...]
Read moreBoylston and Salsman: Guysborough’s Hidden Gems
When it comes to provincial parks, popularity can be a double-edged sword, with many parks overcrowded at the height of tourism season. But in Nova Scotia, two Guysborough County parks have managed to buck the trend. Boylston and Salman are the Nova Scotia park system’s best kept secret – exquisite, uncrowded gems in keeping with [...]
Read moreThomas Raddall Provincial Park
THERE IS A HOUSE DEEP in the forest beyond Port Joli, past the long fingers of Moody Bog and Moody Barren. It stands empty, alone and isolated in a clearing, stripped of the trappings of the family who called this place home for 80 years. John Edgar MacDonald built the house in 1918, the year [...]
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