1. Winter Wilderness Camping for Families
Nothing beats a winter's night in a tent when you climb yourself on a carpet of snow! Winter camping is an exciting experience with young teens, provided you are well prepared and equipped. Many national parks and campsites offer wooden pitches and platforms throughout the cold season. Several sites are accessible only in skis or snowshoes. But if this is your first adventure of winter camping, mount your tent not too far from the car or opt for a center with a heated shelter nearby, such as the Oka National Park. Consult the list of campsites accessible in winter of Sépaq.
2. Prospectors' Tents for Gold Families
Who has not dreamed of living in the days of the Far West? The tents of canvas prospectors are inspired by the shelters of the pioneers and gold diggers who crisscrossed America. They are generally equipped with beds and a table. But to sleep in the warm, it is better not to forget to put wood in the stove! There are tents for prospectors in many parks and outdoor centers. The Happy Valley of Mount Elan, in Haut-Saint-François, rents prospector camps on the Big Hollow Creek, where one can still try to find gold.
3. Yurts for nomadic families
The yurts, these round and spacious tents lit by a well of light at the top, offer to live like the nomads of Central Asia. Furnished and equipped with a kitchen and a wood stove, the yurts offer all the comfort of ready-to-camp in nature. Spread over several national parks, they are growing in popularity. In the Eastern Townships, five yurts are set up in the heart of the forest, each one awakening one of the 5 senses.
4. Rustic Camps and Shelters for the Extended Family
Put on your boots, snowshoes or cross-country skis and go on an expedition for a few days. Several walks in the forest lead you to a rustic camp or are staggered with refuges where to spend the night. All camps and shelters at the Sépaq Network are equipped with beds with mattresses and a wood or propane stove. In Saint-Raymond de Portneuf, the shelters of the Vallée Bras-du-Nord are distinguished by their warm cachet and the beauty of the sites. Unlike the rustic camp, rented exclusively by a group, the shelters are community and other people can join you. A winter experience filled with human warmth!
5. Tipis, trigloo and huts perched for families out of the ordinary
There are all kinds of ecological shelters unusual and trippant for the winter: Indian tipis at La Cédrière de la Montagne at the foot of Mount Mégantic, tepees of wood in the forest Aux Wild River Tipis in the Eastern Townships, Treegloo in fiberglass and cabins perched in the trees at Au Diable Vert in Sutton, and 4-season tents at Gatineau Park.
