Wrap Around Nakusp

Trail Description

This four-season trail circles the picturesque village of Nakusp, providing a 5-kilometre circuit for strolling, dog walking, jogging, or biking, with portions also accessible to wheelchairs, rollerblades, and baby carriages. The circuit includes the paved Waterfront walk, extending along the top of the soil erosion protector for 1 km from the Marina to the beach. The Walk is renowned for its handsome landscaping, including Spicer’s Garden in the middle and the Japanese Garden near the beach. At the other end of the beach, the gravel Greenways extension begins. The groomed gravel path winds through the shade along the lakefront for 800 metres, providing benches for repose and nature watching and some hills for exercise. A detour along 4th St. NW and 10th Ave links the Greenways Extension to the Railway Trail that begins across Highway 23. The Railway Trail is a reclaimed railway bed that stretches to Rosebery, 46 km to the south. About 300 metres past the junction with Government Road, a path branches off the railway trail to head back downtown. From the corner of 1st Ave and 1st St., the path continues along streets back to the Marina.