Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: Gatineau Pkwy, Champlain Pkwy, MacKenzie-King Rd , #7, Glide Wax: Swix LF7, Grip Wax: Vauhti: Carrot over -1 to -6 tar over blue klister

A short classic ski from Asticou to Kingsmere and back.
P1 => GP => CP => #10 => #7 => CP => GP => P1. In addition I did short detours on #15 & #5.
The big groomer passed me at about 11:30 AM grinding and tracksetting the parkways. The parkways are in excellent shape with the new grooming - great flat skating track - firm, fast classic tracks. The trails in the woods (#5, #7, & #15) are still suffering from the thaw with a thin ice base and quite a bit of debris; regardless, they have been ground and reset and are as good as they could be given the problems - they are, nevertheless, quite skiable. I would assess them as fair to good.
I had good kick and fast glide throughout.













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