• Parking Stationnement du Mont Chaudron 48°8'11,393"N
  79°30'46,773"O
• Panorama Vue panoramique 48°8'17,603"N
  79°30'24,88"O
• Panorama Vue panoramique 48°8'19,138"N
  79°30'37,787"O
• Panorama Vue panoramique 48°8'15,363"N
  79°30'25,358"O
• Panorama Vue panoramique 48°8'12,547"N
  79°30'26,693"O
• Panorama Vue panoramique 48°8'17,218"N
  79°30'39,03"O
• Circonflexe RécréOsisko 48°14'21.9"N
  79°00'57.0"O
• Circonflexe Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Abitibi-Ouest 48°48'12.312"N
  79°12'18.108"O
• Circonflexe Maison du Tourisme Amos Harricana 48°3'28.87978"N
  77°47'36.96644"O
• Circonflexe Coop de L’Arrière-Pays 47°19'58.512"N
  79°26'15.108"O
• Circonflexe Parc du Belvédère à Malartic 48°8'1.86"N
  78°7'25.068"O
• Circonflexe Participarc, LaSarre 48°47'35.9052"N
  79°12'29.7126"O

Access Rights

Free, no welcome center.
Pets are allowed.

Directions to the starting point

Heading towards Ontario on Mont-Chaudron Road (Route 117 North), 19.5 km from the fork in Route 101 (just before the Ontario border) turn left (south) onto a gravel road for 1.2 km.

Parking: free

• Observation de la base du mont.
• Ascension à vos risque non recommandée car très périlleuse.

Geomorphology

Geologists argue that the peaks of these hills are probably the remains of an ancient peneplaine, a large space with low gradients, This is the result of long-term erosion and coalescence in the water basins at an altitude of 480 to 510 metres in western Abitibi. The glaciers that moved south later, and these are the same ones that covered part of the Ohio Valley. The resistance of the rock to the advance of glaciers gives a form of mound of sedimentary rocks. From the air, it is obvious that the glacial movement was diverted to the Cheminis. The mountain itself is where a V-shaped line separated the glacier, and the glacier was diverted east and west of the rock mound.

History

Long before Pierre de Troyes and his band of adventurers, known for their expedition to the Hudson’s Bay to dislodge the English in 1686, the legend says that the mountain was used as a place of sacrifice by the inhabitants of the area, the ancestors of the Nishinawbes (Anishinaabes) and the modern-day Aski8, the Ojibwe and Atikamekw respectively.

Fauna

The Peregrine Falcon is designated as a vulnerable wildlife species.

Flora

A floristic species is threatened either by the common juniper or Juniperus communis. It has been observed in a few places such as the summit of Mount Chaudron and Mount Kanasuta, on an island of Lake Dufault and huge settlements in a fallow field at Dupuy.