La Mauricie National Park

A road leads from Grand-Mère via Saint-Jean-des-Piles to the south-east entrance to the Mauricie National Park.

The Parc de la Mauricie covers 536 sq km and extends into the Laurentians that are part of the Canadian Shield. Its many kinds of tree range from maple, ash, cherry, lime and birch to a variety of conifers such as Scotch pine and cedar.

It is a reserve rich in wildlife, with black bear, wolf, fox, beaver, otter, mink, lynx and musk rat, and such birds as bittern, geese, snipe, osprey, hazelhen, etc. For the wildfowl there are close on fifty lakes, the finest being Lac Wapizagonke, 8 km (5 mi.) long, in the park's south-eastern section.