The Trans Canada Trail
The Trans Canada Trail (coined The Great
Trail in 2016) lays claim to the world's
longest network of recreational trails. It
offers a wide range of activities through
diverse landscapes: wilderness, greenways,
blueways, urban, rural and roadways.
Trail Legend
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Greenway Trail
Blueway Trail
Roadway Trail
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Once complete, The Great Trail will stretch
nearly 24,000 km from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and Arctic oceans, linking Canadians
in more than a thousand communities.
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Marten Beach
Lesser Slave Lake
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True to its name, The Great Trail embodies
both the vastness of our terrain and the
diversity of our people. This map shows
the segments of The Great Trail across
the Lesser Slave Region.
Lesser Slave Lake
Provincial Park
2
Kinuso
2
Canyon
Creek
Widewater
Otter
Lake
Slave Lake
Fawcett Lake
3
Lesser
Sla
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Wagner
Rive
4
Municipal
Office
33 Grizzly Trail
A
2
Grizzly Ridge Wildland
Provincial Park
Rock Island
Lake
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Orloff
Lake
Calling
Lake
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Smith
Calling
Lake
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Hondo
Natural Area
2
Lawrence
Lake
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Key Segments
Along The Great Trail
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Cross Lake
Provincial Park
2
Flatbush
Hubert Lake Wildland Provincial Park
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4
5
1 2 The Northshore
Trail The Freighter
Lakeshore Trail The Lesser Slave River The Moose Portage
Blueway Trail
to Smith Trail The Peace River
Trail
Starting at Marten Beach and
winding westward, this key
Trans Canada Trail connector
supports a wide variety of
pursuits like hiking, biking,
quadding, cross-country
skiing, horseback riding,
snowmobiling and more. Leading from Marten Beach
into the Town of Slave Lake,
this trail runs through Lesser
Slave Lake Provincial Park.
The trail boasts spectacular
views and allows unpowered
leisure activities like hiking,
cycling and snowshoeing. This portion of The Great
Trail is actually the connected
waterways of the Lesser
Slave, Otauwau and Fawcett
Rivers. The Blueway Trail
ends at the Athabasca River,
where the Moose Portage to
Smith Trail begins. Beginning at Sawdy, north of
the Town of Athabasca, this
trail runs through a stunning
wilderness full of native flora
and fauna and views of the
Athabasca River. Moose, elk,
deer, black bear and boreal
mammals are abundant.
This scenic trail connects the
Peace River Trail to Smith
and the Athabasca River via
municipal roads that wind
through varied landscape
such as farmland and boreal
forest. Both ends of this trail
are accessible by vehicle.