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Grands-Jardins National Park – Best Trails and Winter Hiking Guide

November 19, 2024
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Charlevoix, Quebec

Grands-Jardins National Park is one of our favorite winter hiking destinations in the province of Québec. Located in the picturesque region of Charlevoix, the park’s scenery and mountain landscapes as seen from atop the peaks in the park are simply stunning, particularly during winter. To help you discover this beautiful area and some of the best trails, we put together this Best Trails and Winter Hiking Guide for Best Trails and Winter Hiking Guide. Disclosure: This page (Grands-Jardins National Park...

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By R & S

Coaticook Gorge Park – Hiking Guide

November 16, 2024
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Eastern Townships, Quebec

Coaticook Gorge Park is a unique park in eastern Québec that is fun for the entire family. Although the park is primarily known for its pedestrian suspension bridge spanning over the Coaticook Gorge, it is also home to several fun and relatively easy hiking trails, including one that takes you over the spectacular and unique bridge. After sunset, the park turns into a magical light show courtesy of Foresta Lumina. To help you discover this beautiful area, we put together...

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By VP

Oka National Park – Best Trails and Hiking Guide

November 11, 2024
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Montreal, Quebec

During the summer, Oka National Park is primarily known for its long beach, the largest one you can find anywhere near Montreal. But the park is also home to several great hiking trails, including one that takes you through a series of historical chapels built in the 1700s, making it one of our favorite National Parks near Montreal. The park is filled with a network of hiking and walking trails and a few scenic lakes as well. So to help...

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By R & S

Yamaska National Park – Best Trails and Hiking Guide

November 10, 2024
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Montreal, Quebec

Yamaska National Park is somewhat of an oddity and a unique park in Québec – it’s centred on a man-made reservoir. The reservoir has however become an important source of life for the diverse flora and fauna that inhabit the park. One of the many ways to explore and experience the park is through some of its hiking trails, so to help you discover this beautiful area, we put together this Yamaska National Park Hiking Guide. The park can easily...

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By R & S

Boucherville Islands National Park – Best Trails and Hiking Guide

November 10, 2024
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Montreal, Quebec

If you are looking for a National Park close to Montreal, look no further than Boucherville Islands National Park (Parc National des Iles de Boucherville). It’s a national park that is spread out across several islands and one that is equally enjoyed by walkers/hikers, nature enthusiasts, cyclists and kayakers. The park is filled with a network of walking and easy hiking trails, so to help you decide which trails you might prefer, we put together this Boucherville Islands National Park...

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By R & S

Mount Pisgah (Vermont) Hiking Guide

November 9, 2024
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Montreal, Quebec, Vermont

Located in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Mount Pisgah is a popular hiking destination that provides hikers with rewarding views of the fjord-like Lake Willoughby (Vermont’s second deepest lake) and the spectacular nearby mountain scenery. Easily reachable from most places in Vermont, Mount Pisgah also makes a great hiking day trip from Montreal or Sherbrooke (Québec). There are several trails you can take to reach the summit, so to help you plan your outdoor adventure here we put together this Mount Pisgah...

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By R & S

Mont Saint-Bruno National Park – Best Trails and Hiking Guide

November 6, 2024
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Montreal, Quebec

Though Mont Saint-Bruno is primarily known for its ski facility and ski school (which happens to be the largest ski school in Canada with over 500 instructors), the mountain is also home to the Mont Saint-Bruno National Park, which is one of our favorite National Parks near Montreal. The park is filled with a network of hiking and walking trails and several scenic lakes, many of which are adorned with floating wooden platforms to enjoy the scenery. So to help...

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Montagne Noire Hiking Guide

November 1, 2024
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Laurentians, Quebec

Located in Québec’s Lanaudière region, about 90 minutes from Montreal or 45 minutes from the Mont-Tremblant, Montagne Noire (also occasionally referred to as the Black Mountain or the Liberator Trail) is a popular hiking destination near the resort village of Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, itself a popular spot for weekend getaways among beautiful mountains and majestic lakes. The Montagne Noire is also well-known for a historically macabre reason – it is the site of the worst accident in Canadian military aviation history. The...

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By R & S

Mont Kaaikop Hiking Guide

November 1, 2024
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Laurentians, Quebec

Located in Québec’s Lanaudière region, about 90 minutes from Montreal or 45 minutes from the Mont-Tremblant, Mont Kaaikop is the second-highest peak in the Laurentians and is a popular hiking destination near the resort village of Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, itself a popular spot for weekend getaways among beautiful mountains and majestic lakes. The Mont Kaaikop trail is one of our favourites to do in the area with spectacular views from the summit, so we put together this Mont Kaaikop Hiking Guide to...

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By R & S

Mont Ouareau Hiking Guide

November 1, 2024
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Laurentians, Quebec

Located in Québec’s Lanaudière region, about 90 minutes from Montreal or 45 minutes from the Mont-Tremblant, Mont Ouareau is a popular hiking destination near the resort village of Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, itself a popular spot for weekend getaways among beautiful mountains and majestic lakes. The Mont Ouareau trail is one of our favourites to do in the area, so we put together this Mont Ouareau Hiking Guide to help you plan your outdoor adventure here, which will include details on the trail...

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‘Tis the Season - part deux
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec (pics 1-5)
📍Montréal, Québec (6-9) The Story of December 25th *******************
❓Do you why Is Christmas is celebrated on December 25? Although Christmas was originally intended to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date of that big event is lost to history. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t celebrated at all. The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honouring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from AD 336. But was Jesus born on December 25 in the first place? Probably not. The Bible doesn’t mention his exact birthday, nor the time of year for that matter, and the Nativity store contains conflicting clues with a December birth. For instance, the presence of shepherds and their sheep suggests a spring birth. One theory is that when church officials settled on December 25 at the end of the third century, they likely wanted the date to coincide with existing pagan festivals honouring Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture) and Mithra (the Persian god of light). That way, it became easier to convince Rome’s pagan subjects to accept Christianity as the empire’s official religion. Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas’s origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. It’s not until the 12th century that we find the first suggestion that Jesus’ birth celebration was deliberately set at the time of pagan feasts. We might never know with any certainty why December 25th was chosen for Christmas. *******************
#christmas #december #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmas #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #quebeccity #quebec

‘Tis the Season
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec The Story of Christmas Trees (and Charlie Brown) *******************
❓Did you know that the first artificial Christmas trees were made with Goose feathers? These trees were then later refined by a company specializing in …. toilet brushes!!! Artificial trees came about during the 1880s in Germany, after Christmas trees became so popular that Germany’s number of trees noticeably declined. Deforestation became a real problem so to combat this, the Goose Feather artificial tree was created. Goose Feather trees were created using actual goose feathers, which were dyed green and and split, secured by wire to form branches. Those wires were attached to dowels which made up the roots. These became quite popular in Germany and soon spread throughout Europe, and even to North America. However, contrary to real trees, these versions couldn’t hold many ornaments because they weren’t particularly sturdy. In the early 1930s, the Addis Brush Company in Britain realized that there must be a better way to build an Artificial Christmas Tree. The brush company was best known for making the first toilet brush and used those same bristles (dyed green) to create leaves on artificial trees. These could hold significantly more weight than goose feather trees. In the late 1950s and early 1960s silver aluminum pine trees were in vogue, most of which included a color wheel, a rotating plastic disc that projected colored lights onto the tree’s reflective surface. **
Then Charlie Brown arrived and killed the aluminum tree. That’s right, in 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” aired for the first time, and its negative portrayal of aluminum Christmas trees is credited for the aluminum tree market collapse. Most aluminum tree production companies ceased production by 1970. ******************* #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmasvibes #xmas #xmas2023 #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #winter #winterwonderland

First Snow ★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼

Cloudy Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Into the Badlands
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Canadian Badlands, Alberta Though the name may seem self-explanatory, early French explorers actually gave the Canadian Badlands region its current name, referring to them as “bad lands to cross” due to this region’s steep-sloped, flat-top mountains and deep, winding gullies. The Canadian Badlands were formed more than 13,000 years ago as a result of glacial meltwater from the Laurentide ice sheet. *******************
❓Did you know that the Canadian Badlands are home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world? Within the badland region, you will find both Dinosaur Provincial Park and The Royal Tyrrell Museum, just west of Drumheller, a town often referred to as the “Dinosaur Capital of the World” and is also where you’ll find the world’s tallest dinosaur statue, standing at roughly 4.5 times the height of an actual T-rex. The Royal Tyrrell Museum houses one of the best fossil collections in the world (pics 9-10), including five specimens that are Guinness World Record holders. You can see three of them on display at the museum year-round, including the largest marine reptile, the most complete tyrannosaurid skeleton and the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world. *******************
#Drumheller #badlands #intothebadlands #canadianbadlands #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody #naturescenes #moodylandscapes

Dramatic Lakes
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Gosau Lakes & Gosau Valley, Austria *******************
❓Did you know that, although we are nearly a month away from the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), several towns and inhabited settlements in the northern hemisphere have already said goodbye to the sun for 2024? Such places experience what is known as a polar night, when the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon for several weeks at a time. Utqiaġvik (Alaska) is home to around 4,500 people, and they haven’t seen the sun since November 18th, and won’t see it again until January 23rd. Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000 and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway, hasn’t seen the sun since November 11th, and won’t see it again until January 30th. Though the polar night isn’t as long in Murmansk, Russia, lasting from December 1st to January 10th, the town has a large population of nearly 300,000 people (the largest city in the world that is north of the Arctic Circle). That’s a lot of folks that soon won’t see the sun for a while. *******************
#alpinelakes #austria #gosaulakes #traveltheworld #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #mountainscenery #mountainscape #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody

Medieval Castles 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗

Jagged Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅

$Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Yoho National Park Yoho is one of my favourite National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. Banff and Jasper get most of the spotlight, but Yoho is no less beautiful with its stunning Emerald Lake - with a fraction of the crowds. ******************* ❓Did you know that the first non-indigenous person to set sight on Emerald Lake didn’t do so until 1882? Canadian guide Tom Wilson stumbled upon it by accident when a string of his horses had gotten away, and it was while tracking them that he found himself in the valley leading to the lake. What a beautiful surprise! ******************* . . . . . #emeraldlake #yoho #yohonationalpark #canadianrockies #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #hiking #hikingshots #mountainscenery #mountainscape #mountainphotography #turquoiselakes #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits$

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