New Brunswick Travel Guide
The Hopewell Rocks at low tide, New Brunswick. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province, split between English and Acadian French culture. Its headline act is the Bay of Fundy, home to the world's highest tides: up to 16 metres, enough to let you walk the ocean floor at the Hopewell Rocks.
Saint John has the Reversing Falls, where the tide forces the river backwards. St. Andrews-by-the-Sea is the classic resort town. The Acadian coast runs north with fishing villages, the Village Historique Acadien, and the warmest salt water north of the Carolinas at Parlee Beach.
Key destinations in New Brunswick
Hopewell RocksThe flowerpot rocks: walk the ocean floor at low tide, kayak it at high.
Fundy National ParkWaterfalls, covered bridges and the Fundy Footpath along the bay.
Village Historique AcadienThe living-history Acadian village near Caraquet.
Kingsbrae GardenThe 11-hectare garden in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea.
Reversing FallsSaint John's falls that reverse direction with the Fundy tides.
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Top Cities & towns in New Brunswick
Regional food
- Fiddleheads (spring fern shoots)
- Poutine râpée (Acadian potato dumpling)
- Dulse (dried seaweed snack)
Getting there
Fredericton (YFC), Moncton (YQM) and Saint John (YSJ) have regional airports. The VIA Ocean stops at Moncton and Bathurst. Time visits to the Hopewell Rocks around low tide.