Sept-Chutes Regional Park
The Sept-Chutes Regional Park is a regional park located in the municipality of Saint-Zénon, in the Matawinie Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Lanaudière, in Quebec, in Canada.
Activities
This park is open year-round. The park offers various services, including nature interpretation panels, picnic tables and the sale of snacks and outdoor accessories.The park has six marked trails:
- Le Voile de la mariée trail: for beginners and intermediates;
- Michel Sokolyk trail: for intermediates;
- Mont Barrière trail: for intermediates;
- Lc Rémi trail: for beginners and intermediates;
- Mont Brossard trail: for intermediates;
- Mont Brossard trail : for intermediates.
The trails in this park are characterized by still wild nature. Each trail is marked and includes several nature interpretation panels to inform visitors about the rich flora and fauna of the park and the peculiarities of its panoramas.
The path along the tumultuous Black River passes near the "Veil de la Mariée" waterfall, which is 60 meters high. This same path leads to little Lac Guy. From there, visitors can take the respective trails of Mont Brassard and Barrière.
The Mont Brassard trail offers magnificent panoramas of the high hills of Saint-Zénon, the valley of the Noire River and of Lake Rémi. This trail leads the hiker to the top of a rocky peak overlooking Route 131 and the cliffs of Lac Rémi. At this point, the hiker is 365 meters above the elevation of the road and 590 meters above sea level! On the course, the hiker meets a pine forest with red pines and a forest of black spruce, called "black spruce".
The Mont Barrière trail involves going through different ecosystems, including a maple grove. Once at the top, the hiker has a superb panorama of the valley of the Black River. At the end of the route on this trail, the hiker must go around Lake Rémi and pass at the foot of a 150-meter cliff.