Trans-Labrador Highway — Rivière Moisie Roadside Dispersed Camp

The Rivière Moisie is one of Quebec’s most storied Atlantic salmon rivers, and where the Trans-Labrador Highway crosses it you’ll find wide gravel shoulders and informal pull-offs used by travellers for decades. The river runs fast and clear out of the Labrador highlands, cold even in August. Camp on the gravel bars or the flat benches above the flood line. No facilities whatsoever — this is pure dispersed boreal camping. Fire wood is everywhere; fire bans apply in dry summers, check Quebec’s SOPFEU system before you light anything.

Located roughly 200 km north of Baie-Comeau on Route 389. The highway at this point is unpaved and washboard conditions vary with maintenance cycles — high clearance is a practical minimum. Water from the river must be treated. Bugs are intense May through early July. Float traffic and sport fishermen work this stretch — don’t camp directly on their access routes.

Salmon river gravel bar, deep boreal north