food at their on-site restaurant. For a more luxurious option, there’s Red Head Cliffs. Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Petr Kolar, this cliffside home has four bedrooms with king-sized beds, six bathrooms, and breathtaking views. It also boasts a media room, fitness room, game room, a library with more than 1,200 books, an interior garden, and so much more. Ingonish also has a variety of wonderful chalets, cabins, B&Bs, and more for
visitors to choose from.
exist.” Some activities they’re hoping to expand into include scuba diving, fly fishing, sea expeditions, mountain coasters, and downhill mountain biking. “First you have to provide people the ability to stay, then you can add activities because you will never have time to do the activities if you have nowhere to stay.”
is actually autumn. “Between the ocean and the mountains, and all the weather’s right, because now we have fall colours. It’s that other season, you know? The third season, which is absolutely fantastic.” He also believes
it’s Cape Breton’s most developed tourism season, and he hopes that Cape Smokey can encourage more visitors, no matter the season. “It’s already a wonderful place,” Martin explains, but he wants “to be able to
show the beauty to more people than the people who already live here.” He also clarifies that it’s not necessarily about the number of tourists but ensuring that they stop and spend actual time in Ingonish.
As for on-site accommodations, Martin says they are ambitiously working on that. “In the next seven years, we’re about building a thousand beds at the base of the ski hill, which will get us a step in the right direction.” Martin considers this to be the bare minimum, though it’s a number that might frighten other people. “That number will allow these outdoor activities to thrive and
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Although he’s a life-long skier, Martin’s favourite season in Cape Breton
“It’s already a wonderful place… now it’s about being able to show the beauty to more people than the people who already live here.”
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