The Port au Choix National Historic Site sits on ancient burial grounds of three different Aboriginal groups, dating back 5500 years. The modern visitors center tells of these groups' creative survival in the area and of one group's unexplained disappearance 3200 years ago. Several good trails around the park let you explore further.
Phillip's Garden , a site with vestiges of Paleo-Eskimo houses, is a highlight. Two trails will take you there. One is the Phillip's Garden Coastal Trail (4km), which leaves from Phillip Dr at the end of town. From here you hopscotch your way over the jigsaw of skeletal rock to the site 1km away.
If you continue, it's another 3km to the Point Riche Lighthouse (1871). It's also accessible via the visitors center road.
Another way to reach Phillip's Garden is the Dorset Trail (8km). It leaves the visitors center and winds across the barrens past stunted trees, passing a Dorset Paleo-Eskimo burial cave before finally reaching the site and linking to the Coastal Trail.
