Planning a trip to Charlevoix
Central Charlevoix
Visitor Information -- Baie-St-Paul has a year-round tourist office directly on Route 138 (tel. 800/667-2276 or 418/665-4454) that's open daily from 9am to 4pm, and until 7pm in the summer. It's on a dramatic hill approaching the village and is well marked from the highway. (Beware, though: It's an extremely sharp turnoff.) Stop here for one of the grandest vistas of the river and town below.
There are two other tourism offices: in downtown Baie-St-Paul at 6 rue St-Jean-Baptiste, and in La Malbaie on the water at 495 boul. de Comporté, Route 362. Regional information is also available at www.tourisme-charlevoix.com.
Upper Charlevoix
Visitor Information -- St-Siméon maintains a seasonal tourist office at 494 rue St-Laurent, open daily from 10am to 6pm between mid-June and Labour Day. More information about the area is online at www.tourisme-charlevoix.com.
Getting There
Central Charlevoix
By Car -- Take Route 138 to Baie-St-Paul. Turn onto Route 362 to go into downtown Baie-St-Paul. To continue northeast, you have the option of taking either Route 138 or the smaller, more scenic Route 362, which travels closer to the water and lets you visit St-Irénée on the way to La Malbaie.
Upper Charlevoix
By Car -- Route 138 leads to both the ferry at St-Siméon and to the northern end of Charlevoix, at Baie Ste-Catherine. The highway dead-ends at the dramatic Saguenay River, with the town of Tadoussac just across the river. There is a free car ferry for the 10-minute passage.
