![]() Perfect weather-breezy, warm and sunny (temp was 27’C).Set off at around 10 am for Lac Saguay, 24 km away from Val Barette.Val Barette to Lac Saguay - elevation at Lac Saguay is 340 metres IN 2018 we spent a couple of days at the Best Western Hotel in Mont Laurier. Tremblant which are painted fuchsia colour. Wooden barriers are natural, unlike ones further south at Mt. Note 2: Many of the rest stops at this northern section of the trail resemble cabooses.In our return trip the next two years, we still felt this was the nicest section of the trail. Note: This was to become our favourite part of the trail, as it was the most scenic and was a comparatively easy ride since it was flatter than some of the other parts of the trail.It seemed strange for us to see these commodities in a grocery store. It was beautiful and well stocked with Quebec cheeses and of course beer and wine. Following this, we toured the local IGA food store. At Mont-Laurier, we rested at a trail rest stop, had a snack, and carried on to the train station, which is at the final point on the trail at Kilometre 200. The farm fields were quite beautiful as well. ![]() The area is very northern looking with lots of lakes by the pathway and trees. Some were on bikes others were rollerblading. We met a few people going each way, saying “Allo” or “Bonjour” to each and every one of them. This trail is referred to as part of “The Green Trail”. We biked 13 km to Mont-Laurier, the northernmost point on the trail. Our first day biking on Le P’tit Train du Nord Linear Park Trail was in perfect weather conditions.The summitelectricity, 5 km from Val Barette, 63 Chemin Poulin (819) 585-2203 We stayed here again for the second year and had a nicer site. There is a company called “Les autobus de Le P’tit Train du Nord” (1-88) that will transfer you (or your bike) from one station to another anywhere from Saint Jerome to Mont Laurier. Bicycles are available for rent especially in Mt Tremblant and Saint Jerome.The last 100 km had a few more outhouses as well. Water is available at all of the former train stations as well as washrooms.B and B’s, hotels, motels, inns and campgrounds are available. There are many points of entrance to the trail with free parking.Is maintained by municipalities through which it passes.Used by hikers, bikers, inline skaters, cross country skiers and snowmobilers-no motorized vehicles during the summer, no horses, animals.It is asphalt from Mont Laurier to Labelle otherwise has a crushed stone surface-is generally well maintained, although in the north, some of the asphalt is bumpy but bumps are well-marked.Washroom at LabelleJerome in the south to Mont-Laurier in north also an additional 30 km from Saint Jerome south to Bois des Filion LPTDN made its last passenger trip on Novemand its last freight trip in 1989.The height of its success was between 19 when its owners, CP, began snow trains that boarded at Montreal, leaving every weekend for skiing in the Laurentians.It became the key to regional development, fostering the growth of the Laurentian tourist industry.Originally was a railway line of the same name built between 18 due to the efforts of Cure Antoine Labelle, a priest from Saint Jerome to open up the area northwest of Montreal to economic growth.Called “Le P’tit Train du Nord Linear Park” is the longest linear park in Canada.The information below represents the notes taken mostly during our first trip, with additions and updates made during the next two trips We have done Le P'tit Train du Nord 2 complete times for 400 km and likely another 200 of selected sections. Le P'tit Train du Nord is but one section of the Route Verte! ![]() Once completed, the Quebec system will include 4,366 kilometres of pathways. These are found in the northern half of the trailChile. National Geographic's Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Trips listed Route Verte (of which Le P'tit Train is a part) ahead of a number of notable international cycling destinations, including the Gran Fondo Campagnolo in Italy, and the Ruta Astral in The 4,000-kilometre Route Verte, which was officially inaugurated last year, has topped the list of international bike paths in a recently published book of the world's best trips. Quebec's province-wide system of bicycle paths has been named the best in the world by the Washington-based National Geographic Society. (all notes by Carol Ursano, with input from Joe!!) Water: at each station and 2 locations have spring water Parking: at stations in each of the townsīathrooms: washrooms at each station, pit toilets in northern section Surface: 100 km crushed limestone and 100km paved Number of times we have biked this trail: 3 years Chutes aux Iroquois Biking Quebec's “Le P’Tit Train du Nord” in Laurentians
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