Mont-Tremblant National Park, Quebec, October 8, 2001

Year: 2001 (October 8, 2001)

11″ x 8.5″

Media: Canon® Pro Platinum High Gloss Photo Paper

Printers: Canon® PIXMA

Color

Art: Photo

Artist: Luc Paquin

Mont-Tremblant National Park, Quebec, Canada

Mont-Tremblant National Park

Location

This park covers 1,510.1 square kilometres and is located in the northeast of Mont-Tremblant and extends east to the north of Saint-Côme. Its territory is located in the regional county municipality (MRC) of Les Laurentides, Antoine-Labelle and Matawinie. The park includes eight municipalities and three unorganized territories. It is bounded on the north by the Rouge-Matawin Wildlife Reserve (réserve faunique Rouge-Matawin) and on the east by the Zec Lavigne.

The park is divided into three main areas, namely the valleys of the Devil’s River, the Pimbina Creek and the Assomption River. Devid sector is accessible by the highway 15 and route 117 from Montreal; or by route 323 from Ottawa. The Pimbina sector is accessible via the route 125 from Saint-Donat. The “L’Assomption” sector is accessible through Saint-Côme. It is also possible to access to the park by La Macaza, by Labelle and by Saint-Michel-des-Saints.

The park lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion.

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