Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: #50, #36 (black), #36 (blue), Glide Wax: Vauhti blue, Grip Wax: Superbinder + Vauhti K-18 (orange) covered with Vauhti fluor green

Checked out the 1st 20km of the new 55km classic course for the Gatineau Loppet by skiing an out-&-back from O'brien (P11). Trail 36 was beautiful but not the best ski conditions (4-day old grooming with new slow snow on top): O.K. coverage but a little thin in exposed spots. Trail 50 towards Lac Phillipe was in good shape - there will be lots of double poling on this section! The snow in the forecast and hopefully new grooming on trail 36 will make for great skiing on this section this weekend.













Gatineau park map


Gatineau Park is ski paradise! The network of ski trails offer machine groomed skate skiing and classic skiing as well as little groomed backcountry trails. Multiple access points allow skiers to access a variety of terrain and scenery. The NCC offers season or daily pay rates.

Gatineau park map

For suggestions on where to ski, excellent trail descriptions, photos and maps checkout Michael McGoldrick`s website about recreational xc-skiing in Canada`s National Capital Region (with an emphasis on the Gatineau Park).

Gatineau park map