1.6 miles
Distance
61 ft
Climb
-67 ft
Descent
00:18:18
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River Loop Details

  • Activities
    • Hike
    • Trail Running
  • Riding Area
    Amherst Shore Provincial Park
    Amherst Shore, Nova Scotia
  • Difficulty Rating
    Green rate
  • Hiking SAC Scale
    T1 Hiking
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Direction
    Both Directions
    Popular in reverse
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • TTFs on Trail
    Bridge
  • Local Popularity
    25 in Hiking [+]
    • 40 in Trail Running

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River Loop is a 3 km less popular green singletrack trail located near Amherst Shore Nova Scotia. This hike primary trail can be used both directions. On average it takes 18 minutes to complete this trail.

Access Info

Follow the river into the campground, look for the wooden bridge across the river.

Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for River Loop hike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    -5 ft
  • Altitude min
    9 ft
  • Altitude max
    44 ft
  • Altitude start
    24 ft
  • Altitude end
    20 ft
  • Grade
    -0.1%
  • Grade max
    -7.7%
  • Grade min
    8.7%
  • Distance climb
    2,293 ft
  • Distance down
    2,434 ft
  • Distance flat
    3,553 ft
  • Avg time
    00:18:18
  • Avg reverse time
    00:19:05
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      Jul 17, 2021 @ 12:25pm
      Jul 17, 2021
      		 trees down across trail on both loops - one you can climb over and the others you need to crawl several metres under. Much of trail is not mowed...
      May 2, 2020 @ 4:40am
      May 2, 2020
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