Take to the trails and discover three great Canadian bike tours. In the next issue of Canadian Geographic Travel, Allen Abel sips and cycles across Niagara, Christy Ann Conlin pedals Nova Scotia's South Shore with her family and Masa Takei rides British Columbia's decommissioned Kettle Valley Railway. Danielle Egan rustles cattle in B.C.'s Cariboo country and Mark Abley explores Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Plus: wind watching, Winnipeg's best and hunting for heritage apples.

Blossoming orchards, warm weather, sandy beaches, lush vineyards: Kelowna, B.C. has it all! Nestled in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Kelowna is becoming one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. Writer Allan Casey explores how the very things drawing people to the area are now at risk as wine, tourism and housing developments explode. In Following Farley writer and biologist Karsten Heuer, along with wife Leanne Allison and son Zev, spend five months travelling across Canada, retracing the steps of author Farley Mowat. Just in time for B.C.'s 150th anniversary, we examine the photography of Frederick Dally, a British Photographer who offered a glimpse into pre-Confederation colonial life.

Plus: Manitoba's east-west hydro debate and the Calgary Stampede caught on camera.

This year's annual environment issue will be printed on wheat straw. It's our message to magazine publishers and pulp-producers alike, that adding agricultural waste to pulp mix can offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut down on the demand of pulp from our boreal forests.

Also, writer Jeff Hull heads into B.C.'s Flathead River Valley and investigates the American discontent with a coal mine proposal near the Montana border. Writer Curtis Gillespie heads to Alberta's Tar Sands to discover what oil companies can do to preserve the area while extracting the coveted oil below. We also celebrate the work of biologists John Smol and Jules Blais, the 2008 Environmental Scientists of the year. PLUS: a pictorial of the new Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area.

Grab your sunglasses and explore 25 of Canada's hottest beaches. We'll take you to hideaways tucked along the Atlantic coast, splash spots in the cool sub-Arctic and gorgeous sandy stretches in British Columbia's Okanagan region.

Also in this issue: writer Lisa Gregoire explores the Edmonton Folk Music Festival; Erin Anderssen sets off down the Rideau Canal; Jerry Kobalenko ventures into Beijing as Olympic fever heats up. Plus: 24 hours in Charlottetown and Canada's 10 best fireworks displays.

In this issue, writer John Lorinc explores how Ontario is becoming the country's shining example as the first province to boost solar power. In the West, Katherine Gordon follows the controversy surrounding the settlement of Canada's first urban treaty with the Tsawwassen First Nation. Dive under the sea with oceanographers Annie Mercier and Francois Hamel as they explore the quirky creatures deep under the Atlantic, and see what's happened to the by-gone hippies of New Brunswick's Fundy Hills in our April edition of Canadian Geographic.

In this issue of Canadian Geographic Travel, follow writer Deborah Campbell into British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest as she tracks down the rarest bear on the planet, the elusive
Kermode. Toronto writer Lynn Coady heads to the unpredictable waters off the coast of Newfoundland for a whale-watching adventure, and Jennifer Wells steps into the Tuscan olive fields to harvest — and sample — the ripe Italian fruit.