Belding's Reef Preserve

Belding’s Reef protects a rugged stretch of Fundy coastline near Chance Harbour, Saint John County. Although just minutes from the Village of Chance Harbour, the Preserve feels remote and gives visitors a taste of wildness, with mature coastal forest, thick carpets of sphagnum mosses, and sounds of rolling ocean swells breaking on reefs and reddish shale cliffs. The Preserve is named for the family who originally owned the property, and for a prominent sandstone reef that juts out from the property into the Bay of Fundy.
The 14 acre property is undeveloped save for a rustic walking trail that follows the coast through Red Spruce, Balsam Fir and Mountain Ash forest, leading to a government lighthouse at the entrance to Chance Harbour. You can find Cinnamon Fern, Sweet Gale, Blue Flag, Goosetongue and Crowberry along the trail – not to mention spectacular views of the Bay of Fundy.