Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: Fortune Pkwy, Champlain Pkwy, #1, #1B, Camp Fortune Race Course, Glide Wax: Vauhti Green, Grip Wax: Vauhti K-base Klister, covered with Vauhti Fluor Orange

Once you get out of the windy parking lot, the sunshine makes for nice skiing today. The trails feature a very hard, icy, and abrasive base, covered with a small amount of windblown snow. For the most part, this makes for reasonably good conditions. For classic skiing you will need a very good binder or klister as a base to keep you kick wax on. The Fortune racing trail is in pretty good shape for either classic or skate, but the classic tracks have certainly been skated over in some places.













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