Day trips
Day trips from Mont-Laurier, in brief: north to the mountain, west to the big water
The short version of the fan: a regional mountain one town north, a reservoir country to the west, a Sepaq reserve to the south and a resort town down the highway. The full version, with every distance computed, is on the day-trips-from page.
The fan out of town, and back
This guide page is the summary; the working list -- every direction carded, every distance computed from the Hotel de ville at 300, boul. Albiny-Paquette -- lives on the day-trips-from page. Attribution is by seat, never by closeness: Ferme-Neuve to the north, Lac-des-Ecorces to the south-east, Kiamika, Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, Chute-Saint-Philippe, Notre-Dame-du-Laus and Riviere-Rouge around the other borders, and Mont-Tremblant far to the south-east are separate municipalities. Their parks, arenas, markets and main streets are theirs, named as destinations when they appear, never absorbed. The MRC d'Antoine-Labelle, seated here, and the Agglomeration de Mont-Laurier are upper layers, credited to themselves every time.
The distances in this guide are computed, not estimated: the origin is the Hotel de ville, 300, boul. Albiny-Paquette (46.548339, -75.503341 -- the registry point settled in the town's identity record); each destination is taken at its published central point; the straight-line distance is the great-circle (haversine) distance, the road estimate multiplies it by 1.35, and the driving time divides it by a 62 km/h average, rounded to five minutes. These are honest planning orders of magnitude -- the day's route itself is read on the road and on Quebec 511
The fan, in three directions
The mountain
The Diable is of 14 km straight-line (computed), about 18 km by road and 20 minutes' estimated driving -- Ferme-Neuve's park, Mont-Laurier's great getaway.
The water + the reserve
The Baskatong is of 34 km straight-line (computed), about 46 km by road and 45 minutes' estimated driving; the Papineau-Labelle accueil at Val-des-Bois is of 77 km straight-line (computed), about 104 km by road and 100 minutes' estimated driving. Big water one way, reserve forest the other.
The towns
The Kiamika park is of 17 km straight-line (computed), about 23 km by road and 20 minutes' estimated driving; Mont-Tremblant is of 85 km straight-line (computed), about 114 km by road and 110 minutes' estimated driving for the resort day, in its own name.
How to choose
Pick by the day's appetite: vertical (the Diable), water (the Baskatong, or the town's own Lac des Sources beach at home), wild (Papineau-Labelle, on Sepaq's terms), or serviced (Mont-Tremblant's resort, Riviere-Rouge's town day). Whatever the direction, the return discipline on the day-trips-from page applies: last entries read before departure, and the dark forest drive home planned, not improvised.
What stays home
A day-trip fan is only honest if the home town keeps its own list: the theatre, the arena and pool, the libraries, the exhibition centre, the trail and the parks are Mont-Laurier's own, printed on this guide's own pages -- and nothing in the fan is needed to fill a Mont-Laurier day. The trips out are additions, not substitutes.
Common questions
Where is the full day-trip list?
On this guide's day-trips-from page: every direction carded with distances computed from the Hotel de ville (straight-line by haversine, road at 1.35 times straight-line, time at 62 km/h), plus the return discipline.
What is the single best day trip from Mont-Laurier?
Montagne du Diable for most visitors -- the closest signature mountain. Water travellers will argue for the Baskatong, and the guide prints each case with its true length on the day-trips-from page.
Are day-trip destinations part of Mont-Laurier?
No -- Ferme-Neuve, Kiamika, Riviere-Rouge and Mont-Tremblant are their own municipalities, and the reserves and reservoirs are their own bodies' records. Each appears in its own name.
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