Canyon Sainte-Anne

Canyon Sainte-Anne is a steep gorge in Quebec carved by the Sainte-Anne-du-Nord River, famous for a seventy-four-meter waterfall and dramatic exposed rock shaped over immense spans of time. Its granitic gneiss reaches back to the Precambrian, later marine sediments became slate during the Acadian orogeny, and ice ages, the Champlain Sea, rebound, and erosion formed the broader landscape. Known to Indigenous peoples long before it became a public destination, the site was later associated with Cornelius Krieghoff and Henry David Thoreau. Jean-Marie and Laurent McNicoll opened access, welcoming first visitors in 1973. Today it is a major natural attraction with suspension bridges, overlooks, climbing, rappelling, and Canada’s first via ferrata.

Quebec · Canada