Gaspé Peninsula Road Trip – Where Every Turn is a Postcard
🚗🌲 Gaspé Peninsula Road Trip – Where Every Turn is a Postcard 📍 Route: Quebec → Gaspé (via Route 132, the only coastal loop!) 📅 Best Time: June-Oct (whales in summer, fiery foliage in fall) 📸 Why Your Camera Won’t Do It Justice ✅ Cliffs vs. Ocean: Sheer drops into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. ✅ Lighthouses: Candy-striped towers like Cap-des-Rosiers (Canada’s tallest). ✅ Rainbow Villages: Percé’s red roofs against Percé Rock’s gray mass. 🛣️ Must-Stop Photo Ops ✔ Your Final Photo’s Spot: (Check your last image for GPS!) ✔ Percé Rock Sunrise – Golden light hits the 375-million-year-old monolith. ✔ Forillon’s Cap-Gaspé – Whales breaching below cliffs. ✔ Sainte-Anne-des-Monts Pier – Fishing boats + Chic-Choc Mountain backdrop. ⚠️ Pro Tips for the Drive ⛽ Last Gas: Fill up in Gaspé Town (eastward stations vanish). 🍁 Fall Secret: Late Sept = maple forests blaze red near Mont-Saint-Pierre. 📶 Offline Maps: Cell service dies after Grande-Vallée. 🏆 Why Gaspé Beats Instagram "No filter matches salt-spray windows down, fiddle music on the radio, and the Atlantic’s endless blue. This is Quebec with its wild heart wide open." #GaspesieRoadTrip #NoFilterNeeded #QuebecByCar #LostInCanada