East Canada

I would not attempt taking a large rv to meat cove. I have done the Cabot trail twice, and been to Meat Cove twice. There is a campground there, but generally it is smaller campers there. It can be done, BUT, I wouldn't advise it. We stayed at Arm of Gold campground in North Sydney the first year, and drove motorcycles around the trail. The second year, we drove our rv to Plage St. Pierre campground, near Chetticamp NS, and took the tow car. The first day we just drove around the entire Cabot trail counter clockwise. This is actually only about four hours of driving, but we stretched it out over the course of a whole day, seeing the entire east side fairly thoroughly, as we knew we would not get there the second day. The second day, we drove clockwise directly up to Meat Cove. We had lunch at the restaurant there, then headed to Cape Breton NP, to hike the 8 km Skyline Trail. This trail is very scenic. We also saw three moose. This day was about the same amount of driving, around four hours in total. We also stretched that out over an entire day between stopping at lookouts, Meatcove, and Cape Breton NP. You can travel to Chetticamp with a large rv. The large hills start right after Chetticamp. We took the interior Cabot Trail highway off the TransCanada to get there. Would highly recommend HWY 19 instead. It not near as narrow as the interior highway. I also recommend spreading the Cabot Trail over two days. It can be driven entirely in one day, but doesn't allow any time to stop and see much. Most of the major scenery is on the west and north sides of the island. This is why we did the whole circle the first day, then concentrated on the west, and north side the second day. If you don't do the entire loop, you will think you missed something important on the east side. There is some nice scenery on the east side, but not near as nice as the rest of the trip around the top end and west side. If you have any other specific questions I can help with, let me know. Cheers.