The best-known lighthouses in Quebec
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Rivière-du-Loup is the place to start: the Phare du Pot à l'Eau-de-vie is 12 km out, Le Petit-Phare 21 km, and the Phare de l'Île Verte and Phare de l'Île rouge lie 26 and 27 km away across the river. Downstream, the Phare de Pointe-au-Père is 9 km from Rimouski, and the Phare de Matane, Cap-des-Rosiers and Pointe-à-la-Renomée follow the Gaspé shore with no larger town close by. Montreal keeps the Phare du Parc Jean-Drapeau, 3 km from Ville-Marie.
RLQuest knows 37 named lighthouses in Quebec, 15 of them with a Wikipedia article. Most of the list is river and gulf coast a long way from anywhere, which suits the app's longer quests: your recorded route has to reach the light, and the shore you walked becomes tiles on your map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
