PEI Tourism Explorer
25 curated places across 6 regions
Stylized map of the island — click a region to browse its places. Counts update automatically as locations are added; the legend below shows how many places match each feature.
Showing 25 destinations that are child friendly, pet friendly and authentic pei
The island's capital and the birthplace of Confederation — harbour-front strolls, Victorian streetscapes, a serious food scene and big-city culture in a small-town package.
Harbour-front wharf of shops, boat tours, ice cream and sunset views over Charlottetown Harbour.
The classic postcard coast: white dunes, red cliffs and the Anne of Green Gables country around Cavendish and the national park.
Family-owned sailing tour operator departing from the floating dock in North Rustico Harbour — quiet eco sailboats with electric drive and solar power cruise the north shore for seals, seabirds and other marine life, and well-behaved dogs are welcome aboard.
A restored church and schoolhouse cluster beside Green Gables with eateries, shops and summer entertainment.
A pull-off above one of the most photographed fishing harbours in Canada — lobster boats, red cliffs and a winding inlet.
A floating boardwalk across Bowley Pond to the parabolic dunes of the Greenwich peninsula — the island's rarest landscape.
Working range light over a busy fishing harbour famous for lobster suppers and seal-watching tours.
Forty kilometres of north-shore dunes, red sandstone cliffs, boardwalks and protected piping plover habitat.
Canada's largest handmade goat-milk soapery, featured on The Amazing Race Canada. The family farm shop pours 100% natural soaps, creams and bath treats on site and welcomes visitors almost every day of the year.
A hidden-gem beach near Darnley where sandstone cliffs, sea stacks and caves replace the Island's usual rolling dunes. Hunt for the famous teacup rock at low tide and enjoy gentle, sheltered waves.
Western PEI's unhurried 350-kilometre shoreline of Acadian villages, lighthouses, wind farms and hidden beaches.
Sheltered park of dunes, campgrounds and supervised swimming beside the West Point lighthouse inn.
Mi'kmaq community reachable by causeway, offering guided cultural experiences, the Legacy Trail and beach clam bakes.
At the island's northwestern tip, where the Gulf of St. Lawrence meets the Northumberland Strait beside a pioneering wind farm.
The east end is all about beaches — more than 50 in minutes — linked by lighthouses, fishing towns and the Confederation Trail.
Home of the famous singing sands that squeak underfoot, with a fisheries museum and a swaying bridge over the inlet.
A square tapered 1881 tower whose Marconi wireless operators once relayed distress traffic from the Titanic.
A 449-kilometre converted rail bed rolling tip to tip across the island — flat, gravelled and dotted with quiet villages.
Where the tides of the Gulf and the Strait visibly collide; climb the 1897 tower and watch for seals and seabirds.
A living 1890s farming village with barn animals, a working forge, and church and schoolhouse demonstrations.
A relaxed harbour village of studios and seafood shacks serving as the gateway to the Greenwich dunes.
A red-and-white 1876 tower with a keeper's museum near the ferry terminal to Nova Scotia.
The south shore facing the Northumberland Strait, where warm water, red clay cliffs and the Confederation Bridge set the pace.
A picturesque harbour light at the mouth of Canoe Cove, reachable down a quiet red-dirt lane.
Built in 1864, Seacow Head is one of PEI's five original colonial lighthouses and among the oldest wooden lights in the Maritimes. A recognized heritage lighthouse, twenty minutes west of the Confederation Bridge.
PEI's oldest lighthouse (1845), a round brick tower with a keeper's chowder house serving seasonal meals.
Grass-covered earthworks marking the first French settlement on the island and its later British garrison, with harbour views and Mi'kmaq history.
A storybook village with a wharf, lighthouse, live theatre and chocolate factory on the Northumberland Strait.
PEI's second city — Celtic culture, a lively harbour-front boardwalk and the gateway to the western drives.
Saturday market packed with island produce, baked goods, crafts and ready-to-eat lobster rolls.