The Marconi Trail is a scenic roadway in the

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province of

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. Located in eastern

Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18. ...

, the route is entirely within the

Cape Breton Regional Municipality Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 94,285. The ...

and runs from

Louisbourg Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. History The French military founded the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1713 and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, ...

Glace Bay Glace Bay (Scottish Gaelic: ''Glasbaidh'') is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton. Formerly an incorporated t ...

along the island's eastern coast. The Glace Bay terminus is at the Marconi National Historic Site, which marks the location of the first radio transmission from North America to Europe, made by

Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italians, Italian inventor and electrical engineering, electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegrap ...

in 1902. The Marconi Trail measures approximately in length.

Mira Gut Bridge

Macroni Trail crossed the Mira River along Mira Bay Drive at the community of Mira Gut along the 140-year-old ''Mira Gut Bridge''. In 2017, the structure was demolished after it was deemed unsafe. A replacement bridge is slated to be open in 2022, but in the meantime travelers must take a detour along Brickyard Road and Hornes Road ( Route 255), crossing the Mira River along Trunk 22 at Albert Bridge.

Highways

Numbered

* Route 255

Named Roads

* Louisbourg Main-à-Dieu Road * Main-à-Dieu Road * Mira Bay Drive * Long Beach Road * Donkin Highway

Communities

* Little Lorraine *

Main-à-Dieu Main-à-Dieu (population 242) is a community located in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. It is the most easterly community in Nova Scotia. It is a fishing village, the homeport for a large lobster Lobsters are a family (Ne ...

* Bateston * Catalone Gut * Mira Gut * Round Island * Homeville * Black Brook *

Port Morien Port Morien (also referred to as "Morien") is a small fishing community of 700 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the southeastern Cape Breton Island near the rural community Donkin, and six miles from the town of Glace Bay ...

* Donkin * Port Caledonia *

References

{{NS Roads and Highways Guglielmo Marconi Scenic travelways in Nova Scotia Roads in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality