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Selby Lake (French: Lac Selby) is a freshwater lake located entirely in Dunham, a city in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie region of southern Quebec, Canada. The lake is 2 km (1.2 mi) by 0.8 km (0.50 mi) wide, with an area of 1.2 km (0.75 mi).
The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations. [5]
Lake Manitou (French: Lac Manitou) is a lake located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jérôme, in the Minganie Regional County Municipality, in the Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The Manitou River flows through the lake from north to south, and continues to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence .
The Oasis at Death Valley, formerly called Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch Resort, is a luxury resort in Furnace Creek, on private land within the boundaries of California's Death Valley National Park. It is owned and operated by Xanterra Travel Collection .
This tourist resort also offers 30.5 km of snowshoe trails. This network of pistes offers four wood-heated huts, a well-equipped ski center, a ski school, with equipment rental service for board sports. At this SÉPAQ tourist resort, outdoor enthusiasts can practice various board sports, including skate skiing.
The ski hill was opened by local businessman Moïse Paquette in 1928, and was continued to be run by his family after his death. The hill itself is named after businessman Alfred Baumgarten, who built a cottage at the base of the hill, by the lake, in the mid-19th century. [9] [10]
The resort grounds includes a number of shared use paths for hiking, cross-country skiing, and dogsledding. The resort grounds also contains 60 kilometres (37 mi) of hiking trails, and 26 kilometres (16 mi) of cross-country skiing trails. [4] In the section of the resort north of rue Notre Dame is an 18-hole, par 70 golf course.
The explorer Samuel de Champlain named the fall located near the mouth of this watercourse "le grand saut de Montmorency" (English: "the big jump of Montmorency") on his map of 1608. Subsequently, the name of this fall attributed to the river. The map of Jean Bourdon, dated approximately 1641, indicates / Rivière Saut de Montmorency ".