Discover the most magical spots to pitch your tent or park your rig on your next Plaisance National Park adventure.
Plaisance National Park is filled with year-round pleasures.
The word “Plaisance”' means pleasure, and that’s exactly what you’ll find at Plaisance National Park (Parc national de Plaisance) in Quebec. This genteel provincial park, 90 miles (145 kilometres) from Montreal and 50 miles (80 kilometres) from Ottawa, offers a supervised swimming pool, canoeing, kayaking, and stand-up paddle boarding, plus hiking, cycling, and fishing. Visitors should keep their eyes on the skies—the park is part of a major migratory route and nearly 250 different birds have been spotted. Parc national de Plaisance has more than 100 sites for tents and RVs.
The park is open year-round. However, the Discovery and Visitors Center (which hosts the reception desk, nature boutique, exhibitions, and equipment rentals) is only open from early June to mid-October. The area is busiest from late June to early September. Visitors should book well in advance to get reservations for Canada Day weekend and Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (celebrated across Quebec on June 24).