The start of the 5 ½-mile Skyline Trail sits near the entrance to the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise and is marked by stone steps inscribed with a quote by John Muir that reads ...

The Skyline Trail in Cape Breton has all this and more ... The trail remains level, taking you through lush meadows ripe with wildflowers and intermittent spruce forests. If you hike early ...

Jim O'Connor is a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). He joins the exchange to discuss the ...