Anyone ever go to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec?

[Lucky Luciano]

I am thinking of going there for the upcoming July 4th weekend since it is somewhere I have never been and I feel like I have been everywhere within a 750 mile radius of NYC. Seems like it could be interesting!

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Oh well! Guess not...all the more reason to go. Should be a different experience. nt

[peacefreak]

2. Yes, I've been.

It's absolutely beautiful. We stayed at the provincial park near Mt St Albert. I loved it because it was so isolated.
No McDonald's, no phone wires, rarely a plane overhead. I'd go back in a minute.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Sounds so relaxing...I may need to add an extra day to

my vacation. I love isloated infrequently visited places. If I had time, Outer Mongolia or Siberia would be of extreme interest to me!

I will focus on the far end of the peninsula, but hopefully I will have time for some of the mountains a bit to the west of that. Then I will come back to NY by way of New Brunswick through Maine. Only issue for the whole trip is my dog. I definitely want to bring my dog - hopefully I can gather the vet papers required for the border quickly! I am taking the chance to go because my girflriend hates long roadtrips (whereas I LOVE them because I am so into exploring) and she has to go to Japan for three weeks because her grandma had surgery recently and wants to see her.

I think I would like to take two weeks to expore Newfoundland and some of the remote sections of Quebec near Labrador. I always look at the map and fantasize about going to the unusual parts of the world!

[applegrove]

4. Some of my family have been to newfoundland. They all loved it.

[Demoiselle]

5. I've been to Prince Edward Island.

I'm sure the Gaspe is at least as gorgeous and peaceful. Go, by all means.
You'd like PEI too, I'm sure.

[livetohike]

6. No, but it's someplace that I've always wanted to go since

meeting a biologist while hiking in Maine back in 1982. He had just come back from spending a few years there.

Maybe now that we are back on the East coast we can finally see what he (the biologist) was talking about :-).

[Burma Jones]

7. Yes I have......

Camped alongside a rushing stream in the Parc National de la Gaspesie near Mt. Albert. Drove up from NYC, spent 4 days there and stayed two days/nights in Quebec City on the way home....

I recommend heartily......