Reviews

Paul Parent

Réserve faunique La Vérendrye is a vast wilderness area in western Québec, renowned for its expansive canoe-camping network and pristine natural beauty. Spanning over 4,000 lakes and 800 km of interconnected waterways, it offers one of North America’s most extensive and least crowded paddling destinations. With nearly 20 established canoe-camping circuits and over 500 backcountry campsites, La Vérendrye is a haven for paddlers. These routes range from relaxed 2-day loops to challenging 6-day adventures, accommodating groups of up to 10 people per site. Each campsite is equipped with a fire pit and pit toilet, though drinking water must be filtered from nearby sources. Canoe and kayak rentals are available at the Le Domaine registration center, and shuttle services are offered for one-way routes. The reserve is a popular destination for fishing enthusiasts, offering abundant opportunities to catch species such as walleye and pike. A daily access fee applies for fishing, and visitors are required to hold a valid fishing license and adhere to local regulations.

Khalil U

Great for hunting and fishing. Very long and big forest. Many beautiful lakes inside

Danielle Birchstream

Beautiful place and so many routes. Perfect for all levels. I love the fact that there’s a campsite at the start point as well in case you arrive late but want to start early the next day. Getting canoes from rental is easy. They have paid showers too.

John Cornellier

Classic Quebec country experience: plenty of machines, plenty of noise, no respect for nature. Leisure first, conservation, uh, last.

dexxy

Due to proximity to the road, there are lauder traffic noises then my appartment with the windows open in the city, the beach is just for loading and unloading boats, as such it is not suitable for swiming. I did try to swim but the beach area was just sharp rocks. The water points are not suitable for drinking, not even boil water adversery, and the office building was sold out of water to buy. the sites are not well maintained, most camping sites of not all just have gravel and rocks on the ground, with underbrush making it's way aroubd the site. The ground is so dry and rocky we pegged the dog into the ground but was very easy to pull up. The toliets and showers by the front were broken when I was there. If you are just camping in a tent, do not go. A trailer or rv will work much better. Alot of the sites I saw had termite mound aswell.

Eric Lange

Went camping here, enjoyed the place but......you pay for for your trailer to be here....that's ok. Then you pay to use the park. But your trailer is in the park where you paid to have it. Then being from Ontario you pay to fish each day. When all is said and done it cost you quite a bit to visit here. As you must pay 22 dollars per person to visit the park, where you paid 43 dollars to park your trailer. You also pay for parking and but there is no parking space for the boat and trailer. A real shame!!! I will not visit this beautiful place again, as they double dip into our pocket for everything which is a real turn off to the beautiful country that we live in. Our family from Quebec with Quebec fishing permits must also pay for everything to be here as well as this is not right!!

Felipe C

We went for the camping and the possibility to have a better view of the stars. We're a famiy that enjoys hiking and biking and we've been going around Quebec with our trailer. We paid for a 3-service spot for 2 nights at La Vieille. The good: - Nice little sandy beach by the lake La Vieille. - Nice piece of trail (what's left of it, see below) up to Lake Glaçon. - Lots and lots of blueberries. - We saw some falling stars, Jupiter and Saturn with its rings. The very bad: - our 3-service spot had a broken electrical pole laying next to the sewer spot (although with electricity), non-potable water and uneven terrain. - The pin for the fire grill was missing. - Too close to the 117 highway. We could hear the traffic and specially the loud vehicles. - apparently a tornado destroyed the majority of the only hiking trail on site in 2016 and SEPAQ didn't bother to rebuild it nor remove it from its maps. What's left is about 500m with the boardwalk to Lake Glaçon nearly falling apart. - no fire logs available. I had to hack some with my mini axe from what was left on the ground by the tornado. - but even if there was, you'd have to plan your visit to the reception shack, because there's only someone there to give you information or rent you kayaks around noon or around 17hs. It took me 3 tries at different wildlife reserves but I finally reached the conclusion that they're not worth it. Too expensive for so little return and so sad a lack of maintenance. I guess I'd better stick to the parks...

Tianning Lao

Went camping for Three nights with tent. Pros: - clean washroom - big camping area and can’t see neighbours Cons: - too many black flies/ mosquitos in June. Got bitten 50 times. - will hear heavy truck on highway at night - can’t rent canoe - 1.5hr away from the nearest grocery Other: - there were wild dogs/huskies wondering freely on the camp site. I didn’t feel safe leaving my dog outside. - we had a bear visit our camping area at night. Come here if: - you own a VR and has a mesh tent - you own a boat

Abeer S

Very quite and beautiful place. I drove from Ottawa, so I arrived from the south, it took about 2.5 hours, roads are not that bad as described 'at least depending on driving from ottawa, there's like 7 or 10 km of a continuous bad road right before reaching the south gate, but that's just like driving on Carling or Bronson, not worse than that!'. If you are coming from Ottawa, my advice is to camp at De La Vieille , it's less than 10 minutes drive from the south gate on route 117. Note that the distance from the south gate to the north gate is 185km. Make sure to check which gate/campground is closer to where you are coming from so you don't end up driving from one side to the other. Staff were very helpful, speaking English and ready to guide and help whenever needed. The campsites with water access is something to look for 'note that those sites usually fully exposed to the sun'. Lake water is super clear and clean, washroom are not so fancy but well maintained and clean all the time. Showers are free not like other Sepaq parks. Be ready to many fun hikes and paddles too

Lucian-Mihai Purici

wow... I love taht place...!