mamestra
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I am in the process of plan a trip around Gaspe Peninsula for 6 rigs including four class A’s 40’+ all with toads. What we would like to do is to try to see some of the sights while in route to our next campground. My questions are as follows:
1. are some or all of the rest areas shown on the map RV friendly (the map I have of the area is the Gaspesie carte routiere map for 2010-12) we are looking for places to stop for coffee breaks, lunch, taking pictures etc. If only some are RV friendly any that you know of would certainly make planning this trip a lot easier
2. the same question for lighthouses and finally
3. any recommendations for campgrounds.
Thanks in advance.
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Maybe this site will help you until you get more answers.
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Be sure to stop and see the Wind Farm exhibit, it was great. Even my wife enjoyed it, and that is not usually her type of thing. Also some fantastic gardens, seems to me near north east end. Obviously the food will be great everywhere.
Some places didn't speak English, and we speak no french, but we had no problems. Not sure what we were served in one resturant, but it was tasty.
We had no trouble finding pulloffs all over the Gaspe, but most (all?) would not have taken multiple RV's all at once. IMHO try going on your own, at least between campgrounds, likely more fun that way anyway.
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Little Kopit
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A lot of those rest stops permit overnight camping. & charge you for it.
When I passed through in 2006, I managed to find a place well away from lots of villages/towns. Here is the pic of what I faced coming to the highway.
Double check when the QC construction holiday is. I think it's the 1st two weeks of August and all construction workers are off. To say the least many of those construction workers go camping.
& I, I took the road less travelled by.
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Our experience 3 summers ago was that parking for a M.H. and towed car was often impossible. We were advised of a couple of restaurants and art galleries to visit. There was no place to park the M.H. at the gallery and we decided to find a place to turn around and take another look. Well 10 miles later we were still trying to find a place to turn around - forget parking. We never made it back to the gallery. The same thing happened at a restaurant we wanted to stop at for lunch. At times like that we really missed our Lance truck camper - could park anywhere!
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This is a post I made about our trip we made to the Gaspe last summer. We had a class A with a toad and did find parking for us but I'm not sure about 6 rigs.
We did the North route around the Gaspesie. We picked up the Official Tourist Guide Gaspesie and found it a great help. At Grand-Metis we visited Reford Gardens with about 3,000 species of plants. We then went to Forillon National Park. They have nice two way hookup sites and a number of very interesting historical sites. All the interpreters would great you in French but if we responded in English they would switch to English. We were told that in this part of Quebec almost everyone speaks both languages. We went on to Perce and parked at Camping Cote Surprise. We had a perfect view of the rock from our front window. We took a boat ride around Perce Rock and out to Bonventure Island. This Island is a bird sanctuary with thousands of Northern Gannets plus other birds. They will drop you off on the island and you can hike over to where the Gannets nest and take a later boat back. The Island is a National Park and there is also a very good discovery centre at the wharf. You can go to the sanctuary and the discovery centre on the same day on one admission price. We could also have gone to a show in the evening but it was only in French. Be prepared for some steep hills on your trip around the pennisula just take your time and you will have a great trip.
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FINDING A CAMPGROUNDs IN GASPESIE
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LIGHTHOUSEs TRAIL GASPESIE
Count on going slow (no 5 lanes highway is this area).
I suggest to spilt you caravan. Six large rigs at the same time in some spots could be a nightmare.
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Little Kopit wrote:.....
Double check when the QC construction holiday is. I think it's the 1st two weeks of August and all construction workers are off. To say the least many of those construction workers go camping.
Good point LK.
Typically the construction holiday was the last 2 weeks of July. However for the past two summers it has been the last week of July and first week of August. It's when many Quebec companies 'close' for vacation.
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mamestra
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Thanks so much for the information that I have read so far, the warning about the construction workers was especially welcome as it certainly looks like that will fall with in our time frame. I'm going to take the suggestion of splitting up the group, would most rest areas accommodate 2 rigs at a time? While I have a chance to add a question I'm looking at spending 4-5 days driving the peninsula is that reasonable?
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CueSee
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The Rt. 132, like Jack said, is not wide.
One place where you can park and sleep free with plenty of space is at Pointe-au-Père, just east of Rimouski at the lighthouse. There is a Maritime Museum there and a landed submarine, Onandaga. There are signs on the 132 roadside. However if you are on the A-20 which by passes Rimouski ad takes you to Mont-Joli where you will have to go down onthe 132 anyway, take the exit at St-Anaclet for P-à-P. There should be indications
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This is a locally known secret...When you leave Trois-Pistoles heading east the next town is St-Simon. The speed limit is 50 km/hr.....DON'T do 60!Better'n that..do 50.
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