Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: Gatineau Pkwy, Champlain Pkwy, #15 (black), Glide Wax: , Grip Wax: Waxless

We made a huge mistake in bringing the classics out, as we spent most of our time looking for traces of classic tracks from last week, or the work of other trail blazers. We can understand there was no point in regrooming the trails during last week's cold spell with few people out, but expected a grooming pass somewhere on a busy weekend day. Groomers were nowhere to be seen on the major parkways, and there certainly was enough snow to deal with. Skating looked pretty slow too.













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