Montmorency Falls


The Montmorency Falls is a large waterfall on the Montmorency River in Quebec, Canada.

Location

The falls are located on the boundary between the borough of Beauport, and Boischatel, about from the heart of old Quebec City. The area surrounding the falls is protected within the Montmorency Falls Park. The falls are at the mouth of the Montmorency River where it drops over the cliff shore into the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the western end of the Île d'Orleans. The waterfalls are 83 m tall, a full 30 m higher than Niagara Falls.

Access and tourism

There are staircases that allow visitors to view the falls from several different perspectives. A suspension bridge over the crest of the falls provides access to both sides of the park. There is also an aerial tram that carries passengers between the base and the top of the falls. In the summer the park hosts an international fireworks competition with the falls as a backdrop.
During summer months, the falls give off a yellow glow due to high iron content in the waterbed.
The Ice Hotel was located at Montmorency Falls for its first year.

In popular culture

The Falls were the site of a key scene between the lead actors in the 1947 film Whispering City, which was filmed on location.
In his poem "Sleep and Poetry", John Keats says that human life is "a poor Indian's sleep / While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep / Of Montmorency." Recreational sleighing on the frozen falls is recorded in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem The Montmorency Waterfall and Cone of 1835.
The Falls appeared during the finale of The Amazing Race Canada 5 in 2017 and were the site of the episode's first task in which competitors scaled a cargo net suspended over the Falls.

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