A grand hotel on the rim of something that fell from the sky.
Four hundred million years ago, something struck Charlevoix.
What it left is one of the largest impact craters on Earth — tens of kilometres across, its rim long since softened into hills and farmland. And perched on that rim, above the St. Lawrence, a château built like a castle.
You'll spend an afternoon inside the crater. Most people never know they're standing in one.
The ground here keeps a longer memory than anyone working the front desk.
Teams are handed clues and sent across the Manoir's grounds, trails and halls to read what the land — and the hotel — still remember.
Where talent meets four hundred million years of geology.
Randomly-formed teams race checkpoints across the grounds, the clubhouse, the casino approach and the via-ferrata trailhead — plaques to find, locals to charm, a wager to risk, a bold prediction to make. Coworkers who barely knew each other two hours ago finish with a story they'll still be telling at dinner.
Ninety minutes, fully self-directed from your phone — then the whole room converges for the reveal. One emcee, no crew on the course.
Teams get one checkpoint at a time, each anchored to a real place on the property — a plaque, a panel, a person. Nothing you can Google; you have to show up and pay attention.
Safe Bet or High-Stakes Gauntlet — choose before the question is revealed. Big points for nerve, nothing for a miss. No going back.
No "tap done." Answers live in the physical world — on the plaques, from the staff, out on the trail — and each one verifies before you move on.
Everyone reconvenes. Anonymous team predictions hit the big screen, the crowd votes, and then the leaderboard drops.
People leave knowing the history and geology of one of Canada's most remarkable properties — earned, not handed to them — and knowing each other. The kind of story that surfaces at dinner.
The Charlevoix Challenge is built for the afternoon before your conference — self-contained, no setup crew, fully digital. Get in touch to run it for your group at Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu.