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Top 5 Biking and Running Trails in Sudbury

One of the best ways to explore our city is by getting out for a run or hopping on your bike. We are lucky to have so many amazing biking and running trails around Sudbury that you really should be exploring. Whether you want to get out for a short 2km or challenge yourself to the full 10km, today we’re sharing five of our favourites for all skill levels! You can find a full list of Sudbury trails on the Rainbow Routes website. Bell Park Boardwalk – 2km Easy. The most well known on the list, the Bell Park boardwalk......

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5 Music Festivals to check out in Sudbury this summer

Summer in Sudbury is always the greatest. We’re surrounded by so many lakes, the sun is usually shining and best of all – the weekends are packed with fun festivals! From gardening festivals to food to music, there is something happening almost every weekend. The festival season has already started so today we’re sharing 5 music festivals in (and around) Sudbury that you need to check out this summer. Northern Lights Festival Boreal – July 5-8   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Northern Lights Festival (@nlfb_festival) NLFB is Canada’s longest running festival and each year......

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Top 5 Burgers Sudbury

Photographer: Oliver Sjöström, https://ollivves.com  Did you know today is National Burger Day? If you’re looking to celebrate, you’re in luck because we’re sharing five of our top 5 burgers in Sudbury. And YES we’ve included our favourite vegetarian option as well. Durham Street Heat @ Oscar’s Grill – 86 Durham Street If you’re a lover of spice, you’re going to LOVE the Durham Street Heat burgers from Oscar’s Grill. Jalapeño bacon, butter buffalo sauce and scotch bonnet chili aioli – this burger is has the spicy trifecta. Topped with lettuce and tomato. Fork & Knife @ Hardrock 42 – 117 Elm Street If you......

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Top Five Fitness Classes: Melbrook Martial Arts

Have you had a chance to check out our other two Top 5 fitness class posts yet? For our first post we spent some time at CrossFit Sudbury learning more about the gym and what exactly Crossfit is. You can check that out here. Our second stop was Zen Fitness where we tried a Kettlebell flow class. You can check out how we did here. For our third and fourth stops we tried two intense classes at Accelerated CycleBarre and you can see those here. Our fifth stop on our fitness tour of Sudbury brought us to Melbrook Martial Arts......

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Top Five Fitness Classes: Accelerated CycleBarre

Have you had a chance to check out our other two Top 5 fitness class posts yet? For our first post we spent some time at CrossFit Sudbury learning more about the gym and what exactly Crossfit is. You can check that out here. Our second stop was Zen Fitness where we tried a Kettlebell flow class. You can check out how we did here. Our third and fourth stops were at Accelerated CycleBarre where we were able to try two different classes. A cycle class and a pilates class. Both were really challenging but equally as great so we decided......

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Top Five Fitness Classes: Zen Fitness

We’re doing out Top 5 series a little bit differently this year. Instead of just rounding up all five in one short post, we’re going to be spreading it out into a series of five posts AND we’re including videos this time. Have you checked out our first video in this series? We spent some time at CrossFit Sudbury learning more about the gym and what exactly Crossfit is. You can check that out here. Today we’re sharing a video with our second stop on our fitness tour of Sudbury: Zen Fitness. We tried out a Kettlebell flow class which......

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5 THINGS YOU HAVE TO EAT BEFORE YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A SUDBURIAN

Since moving to Sudbury from Vancouver, and swapping my rain boots for snow boots, the gracious people of Sudbury have offered me countless amounts of recommendations regarding their favorite restaurants in town to visit.   The best food and restaurants in any given city is always a hotly debated topic, and Sudbury is no different.  And while I do love a good “best of” list, this list is not *exactly* that. This list comprises restaurants, and more specifically menu items, that could be considered quintessentially Sudbury.  The food that is as culturally significant in our town as they are delicious. ......

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Top 5 Day Trips from Sudbury

Looking for an adventure but short on time? No problem – Living in Sudbury we’re lucky to be close enough to head out on some pretty amazing road trips any time of the year and today I’m going to share five of our favourites that you should immediately add to your bucket list. Whether you like exploring nature, kayaking beautiful lakes, eating delicious food or you’re just doing it for the (Insta)gram’, we’ve got you covered with five great day trips. So get planning and head out only our next adventure. Use #OurCrater on Instagram so we can see......

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Top 5 Fitness Classes in Sudbury: Crossfit Sudbury

We’re doing out Top 5 series a little bit differently this year. Instead of just rounding up all five in one short post, we’re going to be spreading it out into a series of five posts AND we’re including videos this time. Do you ever get stuck in a gym rut? I know I do ( full disclosure, I actually hate the gym) so I like to switch it up with different types of classes.  When I was thinking about my fitness goals for 2018 I was having a hard time figuring out what classes were for me and......

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Top 5 most Instagrammable food in Sudbury

These top 5 articles have quickly become some of my favourites to put together because I’m pretty obsessed with searching through Instagram and seeing all of your great photos of local places, people and things (and food). We all love to eat and most of us love to Instagram our food so today we are sharing our top 5 picks for the most Instagrammable food in Sudbury. Flurples birthday cake sundae I know ice cream isn’t ‘in season’ but we are wishing for warmer weather so we’re starting our list off with Flurples birthday cake sundae. Because it’s so......

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