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Mont Saint-Joseph – A Winter Hiking Guide

Mont Mégantic National Park is well known for its impressive winter wonderland landscapes for a few months every year. It’s also a great hiking destination, and the Mont Saint-Joseph trail is one of our favorites for enjoying the beautiful frozen scenery found within the national park. Reaching an altitude of 1105 m, the trail offers several fantastic viewpoints and is easily combined with a few other park trails so that you can hit more than just the one summit during...

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The Mont Mégantic Trail (Observatory) – A Winter Hiking Guide

Known for its dark skies and the astronomical observatory at its summit, Mont Mégantic (and the national park that bears its name) is a fantastic hiking destination, one that we particularly enjoy in winter when the mountain forests turn into a frozen winter wonderland. Of the several fantastic trails that the national park has to offer, the trail leading to Mont Mégantic’s summit is probably our favorite. As if the surrounding winter scenery wasn’t beautiful enough, coming across the observatory...

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Mont Mégantic National Park – Best Trails and Hiking Guide

Mont Mégantic National Park is one of the best places in Québec for rewarding day hikes, especially if you enjoy mountain scenery and quiet, less-visited trails. This guide focuses on the best hiking trails in Mont Mégantic National Park, highlighting routes that offer strong effort-to-reward ratios, scenic viewpoints, and summit experiences. While the park is known for its dark skies and observatory, the trails themselves are reason enough to visit, particularly during winter, our favorite time to hike the park’s...

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Best Things to See and Do in Baie-Saint-Paul (Charlevoix)

One of many charming small towns nestled in the picturesque Charlevoix region of Québec, Baie-Saint-Paul is undoubtedly the most charming of them all. Located just an hour north of Québec City, this quaint town of 7,000 inhabitants is more than worthy of a stop, if not an overnight stay, during your time in Charlevoix. Although Baie St-Paul offers its unique charm year-round as an artists’ town with a rich cultural scene, we find that it becomes particularly wonderful and appealing...

Lac des Cygnes Trail parc national grands jardins charlevoix in winter with snow

Mont-du-Lac-des-Cygnes – A Winter Hiking Guide

Mont-du-Lac-des-Cygnes is one of Grands-Jardin National Park‘s most popular trails – and with good reason. Although it is a moderately challenging hike, it will provide you with a great bang for your buck, as the work-to-reward ratio of this trail is hard to beat. The views from the summit a simply stunning, where you’ll enjoy 360-degree views of the surrounding mountains and glacier-carved valleys. So to help you get the most out of your hiking adventure in Parc National des...

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Mont du Dome – A Winter Hiking Guide

The Mont du Dome, whose summit of the same name peaks at 960m, is home to one of our favorite trails in Quebec’s stunningly beautiful Charlevoix region. It’s a fun trail to do, particularly in winter, and will provide you with stunning views of the surrounding mountains and the glacier-carved valleys below. Its close proximity to other trails in the nearby Grands-Jardins National Park makes it a great alternative option for those planning to visit the area as it is...

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Sutton’s Round Top Trail – A Winter Hiking Guide

Mont Sutton is often regarded as one of the best skiing resorts in eastern Quebec, but it’s not just a winter paradise for avid skiers. The area is also renowned for some beautiful winter hiking trails, such as the Round Top Trail. Although the hike up to the Round Top (the highest peak in the Sutton Mountains) isn’t an easy one, and isn’t overly difficult either making it accessible to most who don’t mind a good climb. Given that there...

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10 Quebec hiking trails that are stunning in winter

If you are an outdoor enthusiast like us and love beautiful winter wonderland landscapes despite our cold Québec winters, you will be happy to know that we have some excellent hiking trails to recommend. Hiking is definitely not an activity that should be exclusively practiced in the summer or fall. In fact, we find it can be even more enjoyable in winter when well prepared. All you need is to dress appropriately given the colder conditions (i.e. layers) and, when...

Best Hiking Trails Near Baie-Saint-Paul (Charlevoix)

If you are an outdoor enthusiast and plan on staying near the Baie-Saint-Paul area in Charlevoix, you’ll be very happy to know that there are some beautiful hiking trails nearby, most of which can be reached within a 30-minute drive from Baie-Saint-Paul. To help you get the most out of your outdoor adventures, we put together this guide on the Best Hiking Trails near Baie-Saint-Paul, focusing on trails that best maximize the effort-to-reward ratio. Although most of the trails we present...

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