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Mont Tremblant Ski Resort (commonly referred to as Tremblant) is a year-round resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada, located about 130 km (80 mi) northwest of Montreal. It is best known as a ski destination , but also features Lake Tremblant suitable for swimming and two golf courses in the summer months.
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 .
Shorelines of ancient Lake Manly are preserved in several parts of Death Valley, but nowhere is the record as clear as at Shoreline Butte. Several lakes have occupied Death Valley since the close of the Pleistocene epoch 10,000 years ago, but these younger lakes were quite shallow compared to Lake Manly (See Badwater and Devils Golf Course above).
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.
7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) towards the south in a deep valley and bending, of which the first 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) in Montmorency Forest, towards the east to the stream of the North (coming from the south); 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) towards the east in a deep valley, until the confluence of the rivière des Neiges (coming from the north);
The Falls were the site of a key scene between the lead actors in the 1947 film Whispering City, which was filmed on location. [9] [10]In his poem "Sleep and Poetry" (1816), John Keats says that human life is "a poor Indian's sleep / While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep / Of Montmorency."
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [1]
Map of Matapedia Valley. At the western extremity of the valley is the village of Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici, Quebec. [12] From north to south, it runs a length of 375 km (233 mi) until it reaches the Restigouche River to the east, which borders New Brunswick. The village of Matapédia, Quebec lies on the valley's eastern tip.