If you really want to be off the beaten path, Nova Scotia’s Yarmouth and Acadian Shores provide unique, fun, and easy options for where to stay and what to do.

Here, you’ll find a mix of attractions and activities that are fabulously fun, soothing to the soul, out-of-the-ordinary, and occasionally out of the blue — be it learning how to haul a lobster trap from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean or stargazing upon distant galaxies in the midnight sky.

Yarmouth & Acadian Shores is home to the largest and most diverse fishery in Atlantic Canada, and more lobster is landed in Southwestern Nova Scotia than anywhere in Canada.

We’re YASTA — the Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Tourism Association. Nice to meet you! We’re a non-profit organization that promotes tourism activities within the Yarmouth & Acadian Shores region of Nova Scotia.

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through Yarmouth’s heritage district where they’ll see stately Sea Captain’s homes and learn some of our stories of heroism at sea. Experience a fully guided tour that will give you a glimpse into Yarmouth’s past. Also, included in the visit is a stop to the Yarmouth County Museum with light refreshments available.

Designated North America’s first Starlight Reserve, Yarmouth & Acadian Shores is home to fantastic stargazing with some of the clearest skies on the continent.

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Located only 24 minutes from Yarmouth, in North America’s first certified Starlight Tourist Destination as designated by the Starlight Foundation the Deep Sky Eye Observatory has both an outdoor viewing platform and an indoor 9-foot dome that houses a Celestron 14″ Edge HD telescope on a CGE Pro mount.

Welcome to Yarmouth & Acadian Shores, the ancestral home of the Mi’kmaq (now a large community known as Wasoqopa ‘q First Nation), with archaeological evidence dating back 4,000 years. A remote place where international explorers gathered, drawn by the rich bounty of the sea and beauty of the land.