Salt Marsh Trail (10 photos)
Posted Nov 25, 2017 05:42:52 PM.
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The Salt Marsh Trail runs almost 12 kilometres from Bissett Road to Lawrencetown Beach.
The most popular part is the first four kilometres starting at Bissett Road in Cole Harbour, where there are parking lots on either side of the street, and a third a little further north.
Built on an abandoned CN railway, the linear trail is wooded for the first half kilometre or so, before it opens up, taking walkers, runners and cyclists over the water.
Its crusher-dust surface is stroller-friendly.
Those enjoying the route over the next few days may encounter heavy equipment past the Canada Goose Bridge as crews reinforce the rock barriers that help reduce erosion from wind and storm surges.
The construction is expected to wrap up sometime next week.
The Salt Marsh Trail is a section of The Great Trail, formerly known as the Trans Canada Trail.
If you've still got energy when you're finished you can continue onto either the Shearwater Flyer trail on the other side of Bissett Road, or the Atlantic View Trail, which starts just past Lawrencetown Beach.
It also links up with the Costley Farm Trail and the Heritage Trail, both of which lead to Cole Harbour / Lawrencetown Coastal Heritage Provincial Park
Or it you want to relax, Rainbow Haven Beach is just a little further down Bissett Road.
