Tremblant is small in altitude, 610 m of vertical between 265 and 875 metres, but big in everything else. The mountain has four sides, North, South, Versant Soleil and Edge, totalling 102 trails and 105 km of pistes, 18 greens, 33 blues, 32 reds and 22 blacks, served by 14 lifts including the iconic eight-passenger cabriolet that scoops you up across the village. Snowmaking covers virtually the entire mountain, as it must in a Quebec winter, and the grooming is among the best in North America: the cruising on Algonquin and Beauchemin is faultless, the moguls on the South Side and Versant Soleil are serious, and the freestyle parks are stops on the FIS circuit. At the base sits Mont Tremblant Village, an Intrawest project from the late 1990s, fully pedestrian, with bright red and blue and yellow facades stacked up the hillside above a cobbled main street. Restaurants, bars, a casino, a spa, an outdoor heated pool: in the evening it is one of the most lively villages in eastern Canada. Montreal-Trudeau airport is 130 km south.