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Montmorency Falls - Montmorency Falls Guestbook   Apr 1, 2015

Just outside and east of Quebec City is a large park with the focus on a tall waterfall, Montmorency Falls. The falls are 83 m. high (272 feet) nearly 100 feet higher than the famed Niagara falls though not as wide. The falls, set in a green park and surrounded by cliffs, are spectacular. I saw them on a sunny day and rainbows coloured the rolling mist at the bottom where it crashes into a river leading out to the St. Lawrence river. I felt for the first time a sense of belonging and my happy place. I have not been able to travel this beautiful country. I visit Quebec a lot to visit my fiance who is in the Canadian Forces in Quebec. I always make time to go to these beautiful falls where I am truly inspired. The Montmorency Falls makes me proud to live in this beautiful country and makes me proud to be a Canadian.

There's a set of cable cars, the best way to go from the visitor centre to the top of the cliffs for excellent views of the falls. There's also a bridge across and down the cliff on one side is a staircase with periodic observation decks that has 487 steps! Not for the faint of foot! In summer they have a fireworks festival over the falls and in winter, after the mist freezes on the cliff sides, the adventurous ice climb! There's a lovely building housing a restaurant and meeting facilities with good views over the river, falls and the park.