Which one to choose in Quebec
Jacques-Cartier National Park vs Mont-Tremblant National Park
Two parks in Quebec. Jacques-Cartier National Park has 4 tickets and tours to book; Mont-Tremblant National Park has 28 tickets and tours to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Quebec, Canada
Jacques-Cartier is the nearest real wilderness to Quebec City, its entrance at kilometre 74 of the highway to Saguenay, about forty minutes' drive north of the old town, and like the other parks that the province of Quebec calls national, it is a provincial park, run by the agency Sépaq, to which the Parks Canada pass does not apply; visitors over seventeen pay a daily access fee, bought online or at the gate. There is no public transport, which is the reason for the tours sold in the city: guided half-day and full-day hikes with a naturalist, transport, snacks or a lunch, in summer and at the peak of the autumn colours, and in winter snowshoeing and cross-country or backcountry skiing excursions, with the equipment supplied.
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Quebec, Canada
Mont-Tremblant is two things that share a name: the ski resort and village on the mountain, an hour and a half north of Montreal, and the much larger provincial park beyond it, run by SÉPAQ, whose Diable sector entrance is twenty minutes from the resort. Most of what is sold as a Mont-Tremblant tour belongs to the resort: the zip lines and treetop walk, the lake cruise on Lac Tremblant, the bike and paddleboard rentals, the summit gondola, dog-sledding and the helicopter flights.
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