Ottawa Region Nature Trails
Welcome to Ottawa and the National Capital Region!
Ottawa is Canada’s capital, a dynamic showcase city of more than one million people. Located in Ontario at the Quebec border, it’s a place where you’ll hear English and French spoken in the streets; where you can discover Canada’s proud heritage at impressive national sites and famous landmarks, including the Rideau Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). It’s a city steeped in culture, with world-class museums and galleries displaying stunning national collections and special exhibitions from Canada and around the world.
Ottawa is a destination alive with celebration, beginning each year with February’s Winterlude, continuing through May’s Canadian Tulip Festival, heating up July 1 with the biggest Canada Day celebration in the country, and going all-out with headliner summer music festivals.
This city is a uniquely beautiful place: an urban centre on the edge of nature where you can enjoy the great outdoors — just outside your hotel room, and nearby in the surrounding country side. There’s an easy cosmopolitan vibe here, and Ottawa is known for being both welcoming and walkable. Explore the distinctive local neighbourhoods, including the historic ByWard Market: by day this area boasts a bustling farmers’ market and chic shops, by night it hums with activity at the restaurants, pubs, and nightclubs.
This is also a city that enjoys the finer things in life, with a culinary community that’s earning wide acclaim, unique boutiques and shopping districts, a lively local music and art scene, and always exciting nightlife.
This is Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Come experience it for yourself.
You will find some of the best hiking and nature trails in Ontario right here in Ottawa Region.
Link to the website for the Ottawa Region:
http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/
Carp Hills Trails
Under an agreement with the City of Ottawa, the Friends of Carp Hills maintain a narrow, backcountry trail, Carp Hills Trails, for hikers, skiers, and snowshoers. Crazy Horse Trail: called the Crazy Horse Trail in honour of the old bar that used to stand adjacent to...Champlain Trail – Gatineau Park
Champlain Trail – Gatineau Park. A moderate challenge, the trail is a 1.3-kilometre loop at the top of the Eardley Escarpment. Along the trail, you can learn about the unique plants that grow here. Stop at the Champlain Lookout, and learn about the geological...Chapman Mills Conservation Area
Welcome to Chapman Mills Conservation Area —This wonderful 23-acre parcel of conservation land is located on the west bank of the Rideau River on Prince of Wales Drive between Winding Way and Lodge Road. It consists mainly of natural river shoreline, wetlands and...Dunlop Trail – Gatineau Park
Dunlop Trail – Gatineau Park has a pleasant little trail that follows Fortune Creek . Link to trails map: http://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/GP_SummerTrailMap_2017_LR.pdf?mtime=20181219110855 Dunlop Trail – Gatineau Park is just one of the...Findlay Creek Boardwalk
The Leitrim Boardwalk takes visitors along a 500m path through this provincially significant wetland south of the Findlay Creek community. The wetland contains marshland, cedar swamp and calcareous fen – which is a rare wetland in the Ottawa area with non-acidic peat...Fitzroy Provincial Park Trails
Carp Trail, 1 km, easy Follow the banks of the Carp River through a mature forest. Terraces Trail – 2 km, moderate This trail takes visitors along a geological journey. See shale pillars that stand as testaments to the erosive power of water and fields that are...Green’s Creek Trails – National Capital Greenbelt
Green’s Creek Trails – National Capital Greenbelt. Green’s Creek is an area of unusual geology with steep-sided ravines and flat tablelands. There are several short ski and hiking trails, a toboggan slide, and the eastern terminus of the Greenbelt Pathway....King Mountain Trail – Gatineau Park
Travel through maple groves, mixed forest and open-rock to the Eardley Escarpment. The lookouts reward hikers with gorgeous views over the Ottawa River Valley. Stairs and some steep sections make this a moderately graded hike, but the loop shouldn’t present too...Lac des Fees Trail – Gatineau Park
Lac des Fees Trail – Gatineau Park is a great trail for birdwatching, along the shore of Lac des Fées, close to downtown . Lac des Fees Trail – Gatineau Park is just one of the many nature trails and hiking trails you can find throughout Ontario by using...