Experiences · included with every suite
Then comes the Tobeatic.
A hundred acres of the lodge's own trails, two rivers at the door, and beyond them the largest wilderness in the Maritimes. Guided stargazing and forest bathing are on the house.
North America’s darkest skies
Switch off the city.
In 2014 the Starlight Foundation, backed by UNESCO, certified Trout Point the world’s first Starlight Hotel. The Tobeatic beside it became North America’s first Starlight Reserve — night-sky brightness that rivals nearly anywhere on earth.
The platform
A riverside meadow with a near-360° sky, a 10″ Meade telescope and a guide every clear night.
By day
Sunspots and prominences through a Coronado solar telescope.
Lucky nights
The Perseids every August — and, now and then, the aurora borealis.
- 10″ Meade telescope on the platform
- Celestron SkyProdigy130 mm, portable
- Coronado 60 mm solar telescope for the day
- Astronomical binoculars, laser pointer and a Sky Quality Meter
Shinrin-yoku
Not a hike. A bath.
A slow, mindful walk with a guide through pristine Acadian forest — red spruce, sugar maple, yellow birch, silky beech, hemlock thirty metres tall. No roads, no houses, no engines. Most days, and also as a private session with forest-side massage or a foraging walk.
Forest walks compared with city walks — research summarised in SpaFinder’s 2015 Trends Report.
Rivers, tub & sauna
Whisky-dark water.
Kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards wait at the river; swim in the tannin-brown pools. Then the barrel sauna, and the wood-fired cedar tub on its deck above the rapids — the Celebrating package books it with wine and a cheese board.
UNESCO Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
The Maritimes’ largest wild place.
Eskers, moraines and kettles left by the glaciers; old-growth pine and hemlock; the headwaters of nine river systems. A refuge for Nova Scotia’s last native moose, black bear and the returning American marten — and canoe routes first travelled by the Mi’kmaq, who called it Tupsie’katik, the place of the alder.
- Billy’s Hill: a 4-hour hike to the highest point in southwest Nova Scotia
- Trout streams of the old Field & Stream guiding days
- Kejimkujik National Park beside it, the protected core
- North America’s first Starlight Reserve, 2014
Bon temps… toujours acadienne
Lobster, beaches, Port-Royal.
Around the lodge lies the longest continuously settled Acadian region in Atlantic Canada: hardshell lobster, Mavillette Beach and Smuggler’s Cove, the Acadian centre at Université Sainte-Anne, and Port-Royal, one of the first European settlements in North America.