MONT SAINTE-ANNE, QUEBEC

'Mont Ste-Anne' is a ski resort about half an hour northeast of Quebec City, Canada, maintaining both nordic and alpine operations.
'Mont-Ste-Anne' is located just outside of Quebec City, Quebec in the city of Beaupré.

Contents

Skiing and Snowboarding

Webcam

Cross-Country Skiing

History

Mountain Biking

Other activities

Resorts of the Canadian Rockies

External links

Skiing and Snowboarding

'Mont-Ste-Anne''s Altitude at the summit is 800 meters (2625 feet), a vertical drop of 625 meters (2050 feet). There are 65 trails covering 68km (42miles) on 3 different sides of the mountain (west,north & south). 17 trails covering 15km (9 miles) are lit up at night for night riding, and it is also the highest vertical in Canada for night riding.
The trails are broken down by trail colour including: Green, Blue, Black Diamond and Double Black Diamond runs. Green (easy) 25%, Blue (difficult) 45%, Black Diamond (more difficult) 20% & Double Black Diamond (extreme) 10%.
The average natural snowfall is 400 cm or 160 inches.

Webcam

4 pictures of the Mont Sainte-Anne summit
See this link: Mont-Sainte-Anne webcam

Cross-Country Skiing

'Mont-Ste-Anne''s Cross-Country Ski Centre features 212 km of trails, including a 125-km network for skating stride, which makes it the 'largest cross-country ski centre in Canada', and the second most important in North America (after Royal Gorge, CA)

History

Ten trails and four lifts (including a gondola) were featured on the ski hill inauguration day on January 16, 1966. This very year, the resort was already making its appearance on the world scene with the Du Maurier International, followed the next year by the first Canadian Winter Games. Skiing at Mont-Sainte-Anne does go back to the 1940’s though. Volunteers and skiers from Beaupré and Québec City, armed with a variety of tools, cut the first trail in the Fall 1943. Three years later, the first skiing competition was taking place, the competitors having to climb on foot up the mountain with all their equipment. The only trail available was then groomed « manually » by local volunteers using their skis while climbing up. Today’s technology certainly makes this task difficult to image.
Since it became privately owned in 1994, millions of dollars have been invested yearly to maintain and improve the resort, as surely as it receives over 400 cm of snow per year.

Mountain Biking

Renowned as the Mecca of mountain biking, Mont-Sainte-Anne features the most spectacular mountain bike network in eastern Canada.
Host of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup since its first year of existence, in 1991, Mont-Sainte-Anne was also host, in September 1998, to the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.

Other activities

'Winter' : Snowshoeing, Dogsledding, Paragliding, Sleigh rides, Ice Skating. Snowmobiling nearby. Spa.

'Summer': Campground, Paragliding, Hiking, Golf, Mountain Biking, Panoramic Gondola, Sled dog Village

Resorts of the Canadian Rockies

Mont-Sainte-Anne is owned by Alberta based Resorts of the Canadian Rockies group, one of the most important ski resort operators in North America, counting seven resorts in the Country : the very famed Lake Louise, Nakiska, site of the 1988 winter Olympics, Wintergreen in Alberta; Fernie and Kimberley in British-Columbia; as well as Stoneham mountain Resort, Mont-Sainte-Anne and Golf Le Grand Vallon in Quebec.

External links

★ Official website of Mont Sainte-Anne