Trans Canada Trail

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The Great Trail
The hiking trail at Grandforks, British Columbia
The hiking trail at Grandforks, British Columbia
Data
length 18,078 km (including waterways 23,837 km)dep1
location Canada
Supervised by Trans Canada Trail Foundation
Type Long-distance hiking trail
The highest point 2185
The new trail markers of "The Great Trail"
The former sign of the "Trans Canada Trail"

The Trans Canada Trail (short TCT , French sentier transcanadien ), since 2016 The Great Trail ( English for, The Big Way '), is a combined Wasserwander-, Radfern- and long distance footpath in Canada . With a length of 18,078 km, it is considered the longest hiking trail in the world, plus waterways, it has a total length of 23,837 km. It connects all of the provinces and territories of Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean and consists of around 430 separate sections. The most easterly point is atCape Spear near St. John's in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the westernmost point at Clover Point in Victoria in the Province of British Columbia . The northernmost point is Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territory .

The official opening took place on the occasion of Canada's 150th birthday on August 26, 2017 in Major's Hill Park in Ottawa , 25 years after the Canada 125 initiative was founded in 1992.

The non-profit Trans Canada Trail Foundation coordinates the work of many volunteers in the project, acquires public funds and private donations. In the individual provinces there are also other organizations that have endeavored to expand and take care of the maintenance of sections of the route.

Large parts of the route run over disused railway lines such as the Kinsol Trestle , the Kettle Valley Railway or through the tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park . In winter, some sections of the Trans Canada Trail can also be used as cross-country skiing trails or snowmobile trails.

Web links

Commons : Trans Canada Trail  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Bücheler: 24,000 km hiking trail: The Great Trail in Canada . In: outdoor , August 4, 2017, accessed March 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Heidi Giebl: The Great Trail - the longest (hiking) path in the world . In: kanadaspezialist.com, February 4, 2018, accessed March 10, 2019.