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Mica Hill Trail
On Mica Hill
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jun–Sep · highs 14–19 °C (57–66 °F)
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Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
This trail winds through Acadian mixed forest and stunted taiga as it climbs to the wind-swept highlands plateau. It offers 360º views spanning the barrens, the dramatic Aspy fault, mountains reaching the most northern tip of Cape Breton.
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Length (signed)
- 7.9 km · 4.9 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 3.3 km · 2.1 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain
- Mica Hill (hill; GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 9.2 km S of Dingwall (Nova Scotia) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Cape Breton Highlands National Park
- Best months
- Jun–Sep
- Country
- Canada
- Region
- Nova Scotia
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- National route
- Operator (OSM)
- Parks Canada
- Route centre
- 46.8260, -60.4444
- Route start
- 46.8176, -60.4546
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19735274
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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