2. Going Up the Boiler

En remontant la Chaudiere - Le pays de l'erable (Beauce)
 * The country of maple (Beauce)
 * 101 km
 * Beginner
 * Flat
 * Medium residential, rural
 * Access: Quebec by Rail via. Quebec and St. George, by the Voyageur bus.

Steps
Milestones:
 * Levis 0
 * Sainte-Marie (St. Mary) 53
 * Sant-Georges (St. George) 101

This picturesque area is dotted with innumerable small roads that invite you to think outside the box. From city to village, from plain to mountain, in russeau river, the traveler will go from surprise to surprise. The main road is located along the Chaudiere crpricieuse that once roamed the canoes of Abenaquis. It is also along the boiler circulating that the procedures that were shuttling between Boston and Quebec.

The Veauceron is a Happy Man who preserves the traditions of hospitality of its ancestors. It's a race auddi a powerhouse, which has a country develop its image, and full of vitality autonone. In Beauce, the language is tasty, industries progressive, enterprising organizations.

Beauce is the realm of small business, it is also an agricultural country, gives to some of the most beautiful sugar Quebec.

The starting point is a prpose the cross of Levis. We can get there by train or ferry that runs between Levis and Quebec.

The Levis of Sainte-Marie

Coming out of the cross, the symbol of Levis, turn right to take our side of the Passage, and then the street Sant Lawrence. You can then roll on the waterfront in Sant Sant and David Romuald. Have to cross the river on the Etchemin, use a while Route 132. After the bridge take the Commercial Street (first street on the right) to Cape Henderson, the mouth of the Chaudiere, or the view is magnifuque. Towards Charny, the road takes ensuire street name du Pont de Charny. A few kilometers upstream from the mouth of the river, has Charny, you can admire the falls of the Chaudiere. At the top of the falls once stood a mission and a cemetery Abenakis.

Ensuire way on Route 175 until Breakeyville pittoreque town lies on the east bank of the river Chaudiere. This section of the trail is the most dangerous, because the heavy traffic on Route 175. At Sant-Lambert, we cross the bridge to ride on the road 171, monistic busy. From Scott, we drive from now on ene small road, Rang Saint-Etienne, on the west bank of the Chaudiere.

A Sante-Marie, one will find hotels and a camping terrrain. Among the attractions of the city include craft shops, home Lacros, the ruins of an old mill and many stately maple stands.

Sainte-Marie and Sant-Georges

This step makes you penetrate even the sensitive heart of the Beauce. You drive on the same tourjous small road on the west bank of the Chaudiere. You can indulge in the small roads that deviate from the Choros Chaudiere.

At St. Joseph de Beauce, the side of the river is, you can visit a wide oterie that uses clay of the little river Calway. Among attraists of the city, two campgrounds and a fall of about fifteen meters.

Beauceville is renowned for its sugar and maple syrup. You can appreciate the both the coures of a hike in the park of the maple. Since the parking lot of the hospital, one day a panorama magnifuque on the Chaudiere.

A Note-Dame-des-Pins, afraid we observe the longest covered bridge in Quebec.

St. George is the metropolis of the Beauce and an important industrial center. The means of accommodation and activities are varied and nombreaux. The cafe "La Cle de Sol" is particularly welcoming to cyclists.