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• Enjoy a variety of watersports, from white-water rafting (especially on the Rivière Rouge) to gentle boating. Canoes, kayaks and sailboards can be hired in the parks. The St Lawrence River has excellent facilities for sailing and waterskiing.
• Go cycling: La Route Verte (the ‘Green Circuit') boasts 3,000km (1,865 miles) of marked paths and roadways. The St Lawrence River Valley is good for moderate cycling, while the Laurentides region is more challenging. Mountain bike enthusiasts head for parks and nature reserves, especially Parc de la Jacques-Cartier and Mont-Sainte-Anne.
• Hit the slopes: Québec boasts outstanding winter sports facilities, a long season, plentiful snow and around 80 ski centres. The main regions are The Laurentians, The Eastern Townships and the Greater Québec/Charlevoix area. Cross-country skiing is very popular, as are snowmobiling, snowshoe trekking, dog sledding, ice fishing and ice climbing.
• From May to October, take a whale-watching tour and see up to 12 species including humpbacks in the St Lawrence. In early March, thousands of harp seals give birth on the ice floes of the Magdalen Islands. Visitors can take a helicopter ride to the ice fields.
• Indulge your taste buds. Attend a food and drink festival, such as the maple harvest from March until mid April. Érablières (maple farms) and cabanes à sucre (sugar shacks) are sprinkled through the province. Visitors can watch the harvest and sample maple toffee (made by pouring molten syrup onto fresh snow).
• Go to Québec City's Winter Carnival, held in January/February. It is the third-largest Lenten festival in the world and is a thrilling spectacle of parties, ice baths, dog sled races, ice palaces, sculptures and snowmobile races.
• Catch some culture in Montréal. The Place des Arts is the home of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and several theatres offering year-round drama, music, ballet and opera. Both the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Arts have good collections.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Go cycling: La Route Verte (the ‘Green Circuit') boasts 3,000km (1,865 miles) of marked paths and roadways. The St Lawrence River Valley is good for moderate cycling, while the Laurentides region is more challenging. Mountain bike enthusiasts head for parks and nature reserves, especially Parc de la Jacques-Cartier and Mont-Sainte-Anne.
• Hit the slopes: Québec boasts outstanding winter sports facilities, a long season, plentiful snow and around 80 ski centres. The main regions are The Laurentians, The Eastern Townships and the Greater Québec/Charlevoix area. Cross-country skiing is very popular, as are snowmobiling, snowshoe trekking, dog sledding, ice fishing and ice climbing.
• From May to October, take a whale-watching tour and see up to 12 species including humpbacks in the St Lawrence. In early March, thousands of harp seals give birth on the ice floes of the Magdalen Islands. Visitors can take a helicopter ride to the ice fields.
• Indulge your taste buds. Attend a food and drink festival, such as the maple harvest from March until mid April. Érablières (maple farms) and cabanes à sucre (sugar shacks) are sprinkled through the province. Visitors can watch the harvest and sample maple toffee (made by pouring molten syrup onto fresh snow).
• Go to Québec City's Winter Carnival, held in January/February. It is the third-largest Lenten festival in the world and is a thrilling spectacle of parties, ice baths, dog sled races, ice palaces, sculptures and snowmobile races.
• Catch some culture in Montréal. The Place des Arts is the home of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and several theatres offering year-round drama, music, ballet and opera. Both the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Arts have good collections.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
