Sightseeing on Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in Canada. It has a lovely location in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Avonlea Village comes from the mythical Avonlea of the girlhood of Anne from the popular book series “Anne of Green Gables” by author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who lived in Cavendish. In the village are shops and eating places and replicas of buildings based on the Avonlea described in the books.

Anne of Green Gables Museum at the Campbell Homestead in Park Corner had a collection of Montgomery memorabilia and carriage rides around her model for the Lake of Shining Waters.

Points East Coastal Drive stretches past lovely beaches, rare dune systems, and lighthouses doting the coastline. Altogether there are six lighthouses open to visitors in the summertime.

Wood Islands Lighthouse is located in Wood Islands Provincial Park near the ferry terminal. There are exhibits about the area's seafaring history and is a lookout point.

Point Prim Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse on Prince Edward Island.

Panmure Island Lighthouse is the oldest wooden lighthouse on the island.

Cape Bear Lighthouse is said to be the first Canadian land station to receive distress signals from the Titanic.

Souris Historic Lighthouse has an interpretative center with the history of light and port. There are also exhibits on the formation of sea glass.

At the end of the scenic drive is the East Point Lighthouse.

Orwell Corner Historic Village also along the drive recreates a late nineteenth-century setting with a historically furnished farm, mill, church, store, and community hall.

Basin Head Beach is nicknamed Singing Sands due to the “singing noise” made when walking on the beach. This happens because of the large amount of silica and quartz in the fine sand.

In the summertime, the PEI Wildlife Federation offers interpretive Beyond the Beach experiences. This lets visitors enjoy Basin Head's Marine Protected Area and the sand dunes and aquatic elif of the lagoon.

North Lake is a town at the eastern end of the island known as “The Tuna Capital of the World”. Here visitors can charter boats to go fishing for tuna which can weigh as much as 1,200 pounds.

Confederation Bridge was completed in 1997 and stretches across the Northumberland Strait. It connects PEI to mainland Canada. This bridge is the longest stretching over freezing water in the world.

North Cape just upward into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with North Cape Lighthouse at its tip.

Take the scenic North Cape Coastal Drive to see the high red sandstone cliffs and small sandy beaches.

North Cape Interpretive Centre has exhibits explaining the process of towering wind turbines.

Summerside is the second largest city on PEI. There are historic buildings, a picturesque waterfront district, and a vibrant cultural scene.

Confederation Trail stretches across the island. The main trail runs from Tignish in the northwest to Elmira in the east. There are smaller trails that branch to Charlottetown, Wood Islands, Souris, Georgetown, Montague, Murray River, and the Confederation Bridge in Borden-Carleton. The routes are open to walkers, runners, and bikers.

Victoria-By-the-Sea is a tiny fishing village. It is beautiful with waterfront fishing shacks and a small lighthouse.

A popular tourist attraction is the Victoria Seaport Lighthouse Museum.

The buildings known as The Bottle Houses have over 25,000 glass bottles forming the walls. These were built by artist and builder Edouard Arsenault from glass and cement. He constructed a six-gabled house, a hexagon tavern, and a chapel.

Greenwich has an extensive and fragile dune system which is an ecosystem that is extremely rare in North America. It has an extensive trail system and a floating boardwalk. This gives you the opportunity to explore 900 acres of dunes. You can relax on the soft sand beaches.

The Greenwich Interpretation Centre has twenty interactive and multimedia exhibits about the regin and information about the 10,000 years of history that shaped it.