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The National Park Tour

The National Park Tour
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Accompanied by a guide or on your own, you will have a great time in our ten national parks!

Worth discovering

The national parks of Québec maritime can be explored through a variety of exciting interpretation activities and interpretation sites, as well as through hiking, cycling, sea kayaking, sea excursions, etc. Moreover, most parks offer accommodations in the form of campgrounds, cottages, huts or inns.

Located in both mountain and seascapes, all our national parks offer services and facilities that are recognized for their quality, which ensures that your visit will be a pleasant one.

Natural heritage

Our national parks protect a wide variety of fascinating species such as:

  • the largest and most accessible northern gannet colony in the world
  • the only caribou herd south of the St. Lawrence
  • the blue whale, which is the largest mammal on the planet
  • the only beluga pod south of the Arctic and subarctic regions
  • five of the six fossil fish groups in existence 380 million years ago on a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • a herd of 130,000 white-tailed deer on a single island
  • green-scaled simple goldenrod (also known as Mt. Albert goldenrod), a plant species found nowhere else in the world
  • the famous Atlantic puffin, also known as the sea parrot

 

 

Ten national parks

Now it is up to you to decide which of these parks to include in your itinerary!

In Bas-Saint-Laurent
Bic National Park
Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata (opening planned for 2012)

In Gaspésie
Gaspésie National Park
Forillon National Park of Canada
Bonaventure Island and Percé Rock National Park
Miguasha National Park

In Côte-Nord
Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park
Saguenay Fjord National Park
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada
Anticosti National Park  
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