Grands-Jardins National Park, National park in Charlevoix region, Quebec, Canada

Grands-Jardins National Park spans a large area in Charlevoix with mountains, forests, and alpine wetlands containing over 120 bodies of water. These lakes and streams flow through two major watershed systems that shape the landscape.

The area served as a logging site starting in 1939 before becoming a national park in 1981. Forestry operations had shaped about a third of the landscape before protective status halted such activities.

Before the park's creation, the Murray River Fishing Club, also called Club La Roche, operated as a private fishing and hunting club, part of an English resort tradition in the area. Its legacy sits alongside the logging history that shaped the territory until 1981.

The park is reached from the south via Route 381 through Saint-Urbain, with Baie-Saint-Paul as the nearest town. Trails are marked and laid out, but the summits are fragile and sensitive to trampling, so hikers should stay on the paths. Activities run in both summer and winter, including camping, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, fishing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

The park hosts taiga environments normally found further north in Quebec, growing here at unusual southern latitudes. With around 200 lichen species and 15 types of heather, it displays a northern ecology in an unexpectedly southern location.