Blue Beach, Grand-Pré

Name: Blue Beach
Address: 127 Blue Beach Rd, Grand-Pré, B0P 1P0, Canada
Telephone: +1 902-684-9541

#2 among attractions in Grand-Pré

Beach, Outdoor activities, Park, Relax in park

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Blue Beach is a 2 kilometres stretch of cliff-bordered coastline at Avonport, Nova Scotia near the mouth of the along the Avon River in the southern bight of Minas Basin, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is best known as a globally significant fossil location for Lagerstätte of the Tournaisian Stage period. ()

Elevation: 52 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 45°5'60"N, 64°12'59"W

Address

127 Blue Beach RdGrand-Pré B0P 1P0 Canada

Contact

+1 902-684-9541

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Blue Beach – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Grand-Pré National Historic Site, Churchill House, Fort Vieux Logis, Covenanter Church.

4.6 miW
, Historical place, Museum
Grand-Pré National Historic Site, Grand-Pré
119 min walk • Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755, and the British deportation of the Acadians that happened during the French and Indian War.
3.1 miSE
Museum, History museum
Churchill House, Grand-Pré
79 min walk • Churchill House is a historic house and community centre located in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. The house was built in 1860 by noted Hantsport shipbuilder Ezra Churchill as a gift for his son John Wiley Churchill.
3.3 miW
Forts and castles
Fort Vieux Logis
84 min walk • Fort Vieux Logis was a small British frontier fort built at present-day Hortonville, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1749, during Father Le Loutre's War. Ranger John Gorham moved a blockhouse he erected in Annapolis Royal in 1744 to the site of Vieux Logis. The fort was in use until 1754.
4.3 miW
Church
Covenanter Church
111 min walk • Covenanter's Church is a New England meeting house style structure located in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, and is the oldest extant Presbyterian Church in Canada.