Cabots Landing Provincial Park (official spelling Cabot's Landing Provincial Park) is a small picnic and beach park on the shore of

Aspy Bay Aspy Bay () is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean near the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Principal features along the bay's coast are the Wilkie Sugar Loaf hill and the Aspy Fault. Communities along the bay include Smelt Brook, White ...

in the community of Sugarloaf, north of the

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. The park is managed by the provincial Department of Natural Resources and features picnic tables in an open field on a bluff overlooking a mile-long red sand public beach fronting Aspy Bay, featuring scenic vistas of the steep face of the Pollets Cove-Aspy Fault Wilderness Area. Cabot Landing Provincial Park

It is believed by some sources that Italian explorer

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(Giovanni Caboto) landed at Aspy Bay in 1497. Cabots Landing Provincial Park features a National Historic Site cairn and bust commemorating the landfall. There is a pioneer cemetery in the park. Cabots Landing Provincial Park was established by

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(OIC) 74-1378 on December 19, 1974. Located nearby, the Wilkie Sugar Loaf trail can be accessed from the Bay St Lawrence Road, north of the entrance to Cabots Landing Provincial Park. The trailhead is at 46°57'11.76"N, 60°27'39.66"W (N46 57.196 W060 27.661) and is marked by orange flagging tape and two yellow stones. The trail is approximately (return) in length and is mostly a steady upward climb, rising over to the peak of Wilkie Sugar Loaf Mountain. The trail offers two different mountain-top overlooks. This trail lies on privately owned land. The park is open for day use (from dawn to dusk), from May 15 to October 12. Civic address: 1904 Bay St. Lawrence Rd., Sugarloaf, Nova Scotia.

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Wilkie Sugarloaf on Geocaching.comWilkie Sugarloaf near Ingonish, NS
{{Nova Scotia parks Provincial parks of Nova Scotia Tourist attractions in Victoria County, Nova Scotia Geography of Victoria County, Nova Scotia Protected areas established in 1974 1974 establishments in Nova Scotia