The favored Champlain Lookout affords a view from atop the Eardley Escarpment towards the Ottawa Valley.

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Gatineau Park’s Champlain Lookout and a piece of the Champlain Parkway might be closed on weekdays to all visitors — together with bicycles — beginning Aug. 15.

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The Nationwide Capital Fee stated the closures would final 4 weeks whereas landscaping work was accomplished on the lookout.

On weekdays, the Champlain Parkway might be closed between the Étienne Brulé Lookout and the Champlain Lookout.

Entry to the Champlain Lookout and to the closed part of the parkway is not going to be attainable by street or climbing path, the NCC stated.

On weekends, the parkway and trails will reopen to energetic customers, automobiles and the Gatineau Park shuttle bus.

The NCC is urging all park guests to respect its work crews and to obey the directions of recent, non permanent indicators.

The favored Champlain Lookout affords a view from atop the Eardley Escarpment towards the Ottawa Valley at a degree the place the Canadian Defend meets the St. Lawrence Lowlands.

A part of the lookout’s retaining wall collapsed in 2019 and the NCC has spent a number of years reconstructing it and landscaping the world.