Parc national Tursujuq

The Largest Park In Eastern North America At About 26,107 Square Kilometres; Created In 2013 Around Lac Guillaume Delisle And Lac A L'Eau Claire, A Lake Formed In Twin Meteorite Craters · Umiujaq, Quebec

Tursujuq is THE LARGEST PARK IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA - about twenty-six thousand square kilometres of Nunavik, created in 2013 and roughly twice the size of any national park east of the Rockies. It takes in two extraordinary bodies of water. LAC GUILLAUME-DELISLE is a near-enclosed saltwater basin joined to Hudson Bay by a single narrow channel, ringed by cuestas rising three hundred metres straight out of the water, and it fills and empties with the tide. LAC A L'EAU-CLAIRE, inland, sits in TWIN METEORITE CRATERS that overlap - two impacts, possibly simultaneous, about two hundred and ninety million years ago - and it is among the clearest large lakes in Quebec. Inuit and Cree have used this country continuously and the park is run with them. There is no road; access is by air to Umiujaq and then by boat or snowmobile with Nunavik Parks guides.

Nunavik, near Umiujaq on eastern Hudson Bay, Umiujaq, Quebec, Canada

SEASONAL AND GUIDED. NUNAVIK PARKS OPERATES TURSUJUQ FROM UMIUJAQ and there are two windows: SUMMER, roughly LATE JULY TO EARLY SEPTEMBER, with travel by boat and on foot; and LATE WINTER AND SPRING, roughly MARCH TO MAY, by snowmobile. OUTSIDE THOSE THE PARK IS NOT OPERATING. EVERY VISIT IS A PACKAGED, GUIDED TRIP booked in advance through Nunavik Parks - THERE IS NO INDEPENDENT ACCESS, no self-drive and no walk-in, and there is no road within hundreds of kilometres. Getting to Umiujaq means scheduled Air Inuit flights from Montreal via Kuujjuarapik, which are long and expensive. Basic cabins and camps are provided as part of the package. WEATHER GOVERNS EVERYTHING - flights and boat travel are delayed routinely and spare days at both ends are essential.

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