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Robert-Bourassa Generating Station
Formerly known as La Grande-2, this hydroelectric power station, buried more than 140 metres underground, is the world's largest underground power station and North America's largest single energy production site.
Radisson and the James Bay Interpretation Centre
The northernmost locality reachable via the Billy-Diamond Highway, this village offers an interpretation centre on the region's natural and human environments, as well as an exceptionally clear night sky ideal for watching the northern lights.
Cree Communities of James Bay
Spread along the eastern shore of James Bay, these millennia-old Cree communities offer, through guided boat excursions such as those run by Wiinipaakw Tours, an authentic immersion in Eeyou culture and the chance to observe belugas, polar bears, and seals in their natural habitat.
Lacs-Albanel-Mistassini-et-Waconichi Wildlife Reserve
Jointly managed and then fully delegated to the Cree Nation of Mistissini in 2017, this vast 16,400 km² reserve protects majestic Lake Mistassini, Québec's largest natural lake, renowned for its exceptional lake trout and northern pike catches.
Pingualuit National Park
Home to one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on the planet, formed 1.4 million years ago, this northernmost park in the Québec network protects a circular lake of exceptional clarity, nicknamed by the Inuit "the remarkable place where one comes to find oneself."
Tursujuq National Park
Québec's largest national park, this territory protects the Hudsonian cuestas and Lake Wiyâshâkimî, the province's second-largest natural lake, formed by a double meteorite impact roughly 287 million years ago.
Kuujjuarapik and Whapmagoostui
Nunavik's southernmost twin community, where an Inuit village and a Cree village coexist at the mouth of the Great Whale River, this site offers a rare chance to observe the distinct cohabitation of two Indigenous nations united by the 1975 James Bay Agreement.
Kuujjuaq and Ungava Bay
Nunavik's largest community and the region's unofficial administrative capital, this town on the Koksoak River serves as the essential gateway to the entire Québec Arctic territory, offering an authentic glimpse of contemporary Inuit life.