Québec: Bike Bas-Saint-Laurent

• 7 days
• 6 nights
• 6 breakfasts
• 4 lunches
• 4 dinners
• snacks
• ferry to and from Ile Verte
• luggage handling
• full-time guide
• van support
• maps and route notes
• Keep your own pace

• The cuisine – bakeries and fresh, delicious food throughout the tour
• The island – always a hit, the scenery, some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world
• The people

This adventure follows easy cycling terrain through a viscerally french, historic area known as the Navigator’s Route. Most of the roads are now paved and well-signposted, but you will follow the same path as the first explorers: Jacques Cartier, and founder of Québec City, Samuel de Champlain. The gently rolling, quiet country roads on the southern shore of the mighty Saint Lawrence River takes you to quaint Québeçois villages including five of the ‘25 Most Beautiful Villages in the Province’, and a progression of gastronomic pleasures.

You will rest in truly unique places, from the lighthouse on Île Verte, to a cozy, wood-floored mansion set among beautiful gardens. In Trois Pistoles, when the fog rolls in from the river, the jazz bar becomes a favourite retreat, and your idiosyncratic inn will charm you with its rural flair. According to local lore, this is where you can meet the devil if you visit the cross in the gleam of the full moon. As you cycle along the St. Lawrence River’s banks, observing the shorebirds and wildlife, admiring the waterfront homes reminiscent of turn-of-the-century seaside resorts, and marvelling at the traditional eel nets reaching out to sea, you might even catch a glimpse of passing whales. In the evening, you can enjoy the sun setting over the Charlevoix Mountains north of the river - rated by the National Geographic as one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world.

• Canada
  • Québec

If you have been on tour with us in the last 3 years, you will receive a 5% discount as a returning guest. In addition, if you have referred new customers to us since your last Freewheeling Adventure, you are entitled to a reduced cost. Each new guest who mentioned you as a referrer will save you $150 off your next trip.

• Cost: $2295 (per person, includes 7 days, 6 nights, 6 breakfasts, 1 dinner, luggage transfers, essential transfers, maps & route notes, emergency support)
• Self-guided adventures can be requested any time.

Hybrid: $145. Racing bikes are not recommended.

This is an easier trip than most, on a mix of paved and unpaved roads and bicycle pathways. While most of the route follows the shore of the St. Lawrence River, there are some hills and van support will be abundant. Expect to ride on hard pack gravel and dirt roads on Ile Verte, well suited for hybrid bicycles.

We have selected inns of the highest possible standards, and endeavour to secure rooms with private bathrooms for all guests. In a few villages on this adventure, there are no inns with private washrooms, in which case we try to reserve the entire inn for the exclusive use of Freewheeling guests. On some nights, you may have to share a bathroom with other Freewheeling guests. If you are uncomfortable with this, we will try to make alternative arrangements for you. Please discuss this with us when booking.