Trip Across Canada on an R3R

[Douglas]

My sister and me toured all over Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island last summer...a great place. Make sure you do the Cabot Trail-just before the start of the trail in "Cheticamp" there is a great little funky "Biker" motor lodge-very friendly. I normally camp but after about 3 days of rain it was time for a hot shower. Halifax has a very nice first-rate Maritime museum and though "Peggy's Cove" is every bit as commercial as you can imagine, if you go early in the morning it is very well worth it. There is a fun little coastal village with a nice brewpub called "Tatamagouche" -its not far from the Federation Bridge to PEI. We didnt make PEI on that trip but I had been there years ago before the bridge...I remember extensive red clay beaches. A favorite of mine when in the Canadian Maritimes is "Fried Clams" and of course being American I look for those weird potato gravy things.

I love Canada and I tour there every year...usually the Yukon which has phenomenal camping opportunities. If you are going to bust up here to get all your provinces I really recommend seeing Whitehorse...stay at the Robert Service Campground...its a 15 minute walk to town along the mighty Yukon river from your tent! -Doug

 

[Woodsey]

My sister and me toured all over Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island last summer...a great place. Make sure you do the Cabot Trail-just before the start of the trail in "Cheticamp" there is a great little funky "Biker" motor lodge-very friendly. I normally camp but after about 3 days of rain it was time for a hot shower. Halifax has a very nice first-rate Maritime museum and though "Peggy's Cove" is every bit as commercial as you can imagine, if you go early in the morning it is very well worth it. There is a fun little coastal village with a nice brewpub called "Tatamagouche" -its not far from the Federation Bridge to PEI. We didnt make PEI on that trip but I had been there years ago before the bridge...I remember extensive red clay beaches. A favorite of mine when in the Canadian Maritimes is "Fried Clams" and of course being American I look for those weird potato gravy things.

I love Canada and I tour there every year...usually the Yukon which has phenomenal camping opportunities. If you are going to bust up here to get all your provinces I really recommend seeing Whitehorse...stay at the Robert Service Campground...its a 15 minute walk to town along the mighty Yukon river from your tent! -Doug

How are the fueling opportunities on the way up to Yukon? That's my biggest setback to going that far north. I'd need a different bike!

 

[Toddyboy]

If you end up anywhere near Whitby Ontario Canada you've got to hit up Big Boys burgers just off the 401 they have half pound and 1 pound burgers and amazing fries

 

[Joesmoe]

If you go through Red Deer Alberta stop at Peters drive in for burgers, and if your crazy hungry, onion rings (they come in a quantity that can only be described as "bucket") and on the same side of the road is the Donut mill, best donuts for a long way in any direction.

Wow, salivating . . . this seems worth a trip all by itself.

If only I were in the oil industry.

Perhaps I'll have a reason to travel out there some day.

 

[Gregger]

Well Woodsey, that's quite the adventure trip you have slated for this summer. When are you planning on heading west and by which route? I plan on heading west this summer (probably July) to the Kelowna area for several days and explore BC, then off to see my son in Edmonton, then back to Timmins.

If you want to get the most from your current tires, you can purchase some tires from Echo Cycle in Edmonton or Blackfoot in Calgary and have them changed on your way back from Vancouver rather than change them early.

 

[Woodsey]

Well Woodsey, that's quite the adventure trip you have slated for this summer. When are you planning on heading west and by which route? I plan on heading west this summer (probably July) to the Kelowna area for several days and explore BC, then off to see my son in Edmonton, then back to Timmins.

If you want to get the most from your current tires, you can purchase some tires from Echo Cycle in Edmonton or Blackfoot in Calgary and have them changed on your way back from Vancouver rather than change them early.

Im just running the Trans Can for the big miles, hwy 17 in Ontario around Superior. I'll be splitting down to hwy 3 around Lethbridge to head to a little resort in Kimberly BC on the way to Vancouver. Need to visit a grave site there. After Vancouver, weather will dictate a ride up to Edmonton. I only have three weeks due to work, so it's going to be a bit of a race.

I'll pop the old tires back on when I get home.

 

[Triple Trouble]

You'll be way north of me taking that route. I used to live along 17 a few years back. Not much to add but just east of Blind River is the Anishinaabe First Nations reserve and they have their own police force and are quite strict at enforcing speed limits on hwy 17.
Sounds like a great trip. I'd like to visit the Canadian Rockies one day.

 

[Sonofcorax]

Im just running the Trans Can for the big miles, hwy 17 in Ontario around Superior. I'll be splitting down to hwy 3 around Lethbridge to head to a little resort in Kimberly BC on the way to Vancouver. Need to visit a grave site there. After Vancouver, weather will dictate a ride up to Edmonton. I only have three weeks due to work, so it's going to be a bit of a race.

I'll pop the old tires back on when I get home.

If you do make it up to Edmonton hit me up, Ill buy you a hot meal and your choice of beverage only time in the summer ill not be here is july 12-17 headed to Nelson BC for the Kootenay Rat Raid.

 

[Douglas]

How are the fueling opportunities on the way up to Yukon? That's my biggest setback to going that far north. I'd need a different bike!

I can only vouch for the road between Anchorage/whitehorse/skagway/haines/haines jct. but I can totally feel your trepidation. whenever I ride in Alaska and the Yukon I stop at every station-because there are so few and so few towns...half tank left and heres a station? stoppin! There is a great book for the ALCAN called the "Milepost" published every year and details everything on the route mile by mile.

 

[albertaduke]

Sounds like a fantastic trip. How many miles?

I done similar last june count 3800 miles +3800 miles for return