Healthy Family Day

Food, flowers, and fun! That’s what you’ll find at Wile’s Lake Farm Market where our baked goods, prepared food, farm produce, and garden centre plants and flowers have been delighting our customers for over 38 years. ​ We’re a local business, serving the South Shore communities of Nova Scotia, as well as visitors from all over Canada and the world. We take great pride in our traditional recipes, our support of local growers and producers, our beautifully-tended greenhouse…

Wiles Lake Park is located at 3270 Hwy 325 in Wileville, and is a sweet waterfront site that was once a provincial depot. Here you will find picnic tables, lake access for swimming (unsupervised) and an area to launch a canoe or kayak. There are also usually porta-potties on-site during the summer season. This is a day use park, no overnight camping allowed. No supervision at swim site.

Garden fresh produce, local vegetables and fruit in season, ice cream cones, dairy products, jams & jellies, hanging baskets, perennials, annuals, fertilizer, growing medium, seed potatoes, dragonfly pins, fudge, vegetable transplants, fresh bakery products, crafts, mats, yarn, lawn ornaments and more! Civic Address: 16554 Highway 103 Hebbs Cross NS Facebook

Come enjoy the experience of picking your own farm fresh berries right off the vine! Indian Garden Farms U-picks take place while berries are in season and offer our customers the chance to get right into the action of harvesting their own fresh produce. Strawberries Raspberries High Bush Blueberries (limited amounts) *In season (varies depending on berry) Civic Address: 15401 Highway 3 Hebbville NS Facebook

Cookville Provincial Park is a small community-operated day-use picnic park located in the South Shore region. This small roadside park has picnic tables and access to the LaHave River for canoeing, kayaking and sport fishing. Explore the area’s wildlife, including bird watching. Facebook Trip Advisor

Land Care Nursery offers a wide-selection of plants on over 1.5 acres. The nursery has Annuals, Grasses, Herbs, Perennials, Roses, Shrubs, Small Fruit, Trees, Vegetables, and Vines. The Retail Garden Center has numerous tools and materials to keep your garden growing, including pots, planters, fertilizers, flower seeds, bulbs, seeds, and bagged soils. Civic Address: 1436 Highway 10 Cookville NS Facebook

Join tour guide Sam Wentzell of Sam’s Woodland Tours for informative guided nature walks and historical walking tours. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of plants, trees and wildlife here in Nova Scotia. Sam’s Woodland Tours takes place in and around Bridgewater Nova Scotia. The woodland tours are offered on a private woodlot in Upper Branch. The rail trail tours take place on the Centennial Trail in Bridgewater and connects to the LaHave River Trail in…

Miller Point Peace Park is an ideal place for a leisurely scenic walk or family picnic. You can enjoy views of the LaHave River and Horseshoe Cove along the trails as you walk through the towering pines. In the spring, view hundreds of lady slippers and other flora and fauna along the 5 km of walking trails. In the fall, the changing colors are absolutely beautiful. This park has a long history indicated by the remains of stone foundations throughout the site. The trails are all level, smooth,…

Trailhead Civic Address: 140 Wentzell Road, Wentzell Lake Portion Runs: Bridgewater to Cookville/Wentzells Lake ​Length: Cookville Park to LaHave River Trail/Centennial Line 2.6 km Gun Club to parking lot at Wentzells Lake 2.4 km Parking lot at Wentzell Lake to Salmon Run Road 1.7 km Rules: shared-use trail, expect to see OHV’s, skiers, bikes, snowshoers, walkers, dogs on leash, horses. Facebook

Located on the west side of the LaHave River in Conquerall Bank, this lovely riverside park is a great spot to lay out a blanket and enjoy the views or to host a family picnic. In 2024 the park became home to The Pencil Walk art installation. This sculpture, created by Rick Silas, was made into colored pencils of assorted lengths pinned to the ground in a pattern that are fun to walk and play on. The multi-colored pencils incorporated in the structure reflect the diversity of the District of…