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A DRIVING TOUR
GASPÉ PENINSULA

Distance 639 miles (1,029 km) Departure point Grand Métis
Stopping-off points Stay the night in Gaspé or Percé as the
journey is too long to complete in a single day
EXPERIENCE Quebec Province out north of New Brunswick to offer Quebec’s wildest and most Located at the entrance
Known in French as La Gaspésie, the Gaspé Peninsula stretches
appealing scenery. As the peninsula spreads east, clumps of trees
to the Parc National de
la Gaspésie and the
become dense pine forests, and the landscape becomes rough
wildlife reserves of the
and rocky; cliffs along the northern coast reach 1,500 ft (500 m).
Chic-Chocs, Sainte-
The Chic-Choc mountains reach heights of 4,000 ft (1,300 m)
Anne-des-Monts is a
and provide some of the province’s best hiking. Shielded by the
19th-century village
mountains, the southern coast harbors 18th-century fishing
with fine restaurants
villages, inland fruit farms, exotic gardens, and wilderness
and good salmon
national parks. Trips into the interior on the secondary road
fishing nearby.
299 are ideal for seeing the rocky wilderness.
Marsoui Marsoui Grande-V Grande-Vallée
ée
all
Mont-Saint-
Sainte-Anne-
Named for a nearby cat-shaped rock, Sainte-Anne- Mont-Saint -
Cap Chat boasts the tallest windmill in des-Monts des-Monts Pierre Pierre Cloridorme
Cloridorme
the world at 360 ft (110 m).
Cap-Chat Cap-Chat
The small town of Grand Métis is
Rivière-au-Renard
home to one of Canada’s most Grosses-R Grosses-Roches Mont Jacques-C ar tier Murdochvill e Rivière-au-R enar d
Mont Jacques-Cartier
oches
Murdochville
4,160 ft (1,268 m)
beautiful gardens, an exotic haven 4,160 ft (1,268 m)
Mo
Mountains
3,724 ft (1,135 m) hic-Choc
of 3,000 species, cultivars, and Mont Logan Mont Logan Chic-Choc untains Réserve Faunique
Réserve Faunique
varieties of plants. 3,724 ft (1,135 m) C des Chic-Chocs York York
des Chic-Chocs
St-Ulric St-Ulric Matane Matane Gaspe Gaspe
Réserve Réserve Cap Gaspé Cap Gaspé
Faunique des
Faunique des
Matane Matane St-Jean St-Jean
Réserve
-Mer
Grand Métis
Grand Métis Métis-sur Métis-sur-Mer Faunique de Réserve
Faunique de
START Lac Lac Dunière Dunière Bon avent ure Bon avent ure
Mont-Joli Mont-Joli Sayabec Sayabec Matapédia
Matapédia
Percé Percé
Amqui Amqui Cascapédia Cascapédia
Grand Rivièr e
Grand Rivière
Causapscal
Causapscal
Réserve Faunique Chandler
Réserve Faunique Chandler
Nouvelle
Nouvelle
de Port-Daniel
de Port-Daniel
Ste-Florence
Ste-Florence
Port-Daniel-
Maria Maria New Richmond Port-Daniel - Gascons
New Richmond
Matapédia
Matapédia
Gascons
FINISH Carleton-sur -Mer
Carleton-sur-Mer
New Carlisle
Campbellton New Carlisl e
Campbellton
Matapédia Matapédia
Over 300 sq miles
(800 sq km) of
Starting at the confluence of rough terrain mark
two excellent salmon-fishing a change from
rivers, the picturesque boreal to subalpine
Matapédia Valley is forest at the Parc
crisscrossed by covered National de
bridges. Concealing la Gaspésie.
long-established fruit farms,
the valley’s elm and maple
trees show stunning fall colors.
0 kilometers 40
0 kilometers 40 N N
Contemporary garden designed 0 miles 0 miles 40 40
for the Le Festival International
de Jardins at Grand Métis
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