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Certain information will be useful to help you better plan your car trips within Québec.
For information on road conditions and roadworks, you can call Inforoutière (1 888 355-0511) or visit the Transports Québec Web site.
Tourism signage
As soon as you arrive in Québec and whenever you’re travelling along Québec’s roadways, keep your eyes open for the blue and brown signs bearing useful messages to guide you towards tourism destinations.1. Greeting signage as you enter Québec and the various tourist regions
These signs are installed along highways or main roads to greet you and indicate your location when you enter Québec or a tourist region.
 
Calling the telephone number that appears on these signs will put you in contact with a Tourisme Québec information agent.2. Signage for welcome and tourist information sites
Three types of sign will guide you towards welcome and tourist information sites, with their pictogram or message indicating the scope of the tourist information offered at the site. For instance, if it covers the entire province of Québec, you’ll see a pictogram of the fleur de lys. If it covers a specific tourist region, that region, for example, Lanaudière, will be named. If it covers only a municipality, it will simply bear a question mark.
   3. Signage for tourism facilities
Private tourism facilities
Blue signs will direct you towards attractions, activities or accommodation establishments. Identifying more than a thousand businesses operating in the tourism industry, these signs bear pictograms that enable you to quickly determine the nature of the facility. They also indicate the business name and specify the direction of the tourist site and the distance you must travel to reach it.
  
This type of signage exists for several categories of private tourism facility: accommodations, campgrounds, activities (golf, downhill ski centre, beach, etc.), and cultural and historical sites (such as museums and interpretation centres).Public tourism facilities
Brown signs indicate roadside parks (where you can rest and take advantage of certain services), national parks (where you can practice numerous activities), wildlife reserves, etc. The colour brown is used to differentiate these facilities from private tourism facilities, which are indicated by blue signs.
 4. Signage for service stations and restaurant facilities along highways
Other signs indicate services that will help you reach your destination. Service stations and restaurants located less than 5 km (3 mi.) from an interchange may be identified by their corporate logo.
  5. Signage for tourist routes and tours
Eight tourist routes are identified on the highway network in Québec’s various regions. You can travel the Chemin du Roy (King’s Road), the Route des Navigateurs (Navigators’ Route), the Route du Fleuve (St. Lawrence Route), the Route des Baleines (Whale Route), the Route de la Nouvelle-France (New France Route), the Route des Vins (Wine Route), the Circuit du Paysan (Agricultural Tour) and the Route des Frontières (Border Route).
Signs feature pictograms illustrating the theme and name of the tourist route or tour.
 This site will lead you towards a tourist route
from a main road or highway.
 This type of sign indicates
the start of a tourist route.
 This type of sign, installed every 10 km (6 mi.),
indicates that you are still travelling along
a tourist route.6. Signage for off-road bikeways
Particular signs are used to indicate off-road bikeways. Whether it’s a regional bikeway or part of the Route verte (green route), it will extend over a minimum of 20 km (12 mi.).
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Getting to Québec
Getting around Québec
By car
