HALIFAX -- RCMP say they have used a drone to help find a family lost in a wooded area in Nova Scotia.

Police say two people and their one-year-old child were hiking in the woods off Highway 107 and became disoriented on Saturday evening.

The Mounties say an unmanned aerial vehicle was used to determine the location of the hikers in a heavily wooded area, northeast of Topsail Lake.

They say officers found the hikers with the help of a police dog unit and safely walked them out of the woods around 2 a.m. Sunday.