Venture onto a rugged peninsula extending four miles into the Atlantic Ocean – all under a 90-minute drive from Halifax. Hike Taylor Head Provincial Parks’s trail network offers routes for every experience level. The Friends of Taylor Head Provincial Parks offers group hikes (free); visit our Events page to see when the next one is scheduled. this group of over one hundred islands has seen little disturbance from humans—making it one of the continent’s last great coastal island wildernesses. The untouched white sand beaches, idyllic sheltered coves, dramatic, windswept headlands, and rugged rocky shorelines are an archipelago that is part of the 100 Wild Islands.