Journal · 15 November 2026

A lake in the glass: where the hotel's water comes from

Lac Tremblant is not only the summer view. It is the hotel's drinking water — a detail tucked into its sustainability page.

Most hotels tell you the view from the window. Fairmont Tremblant, on a page few guests open, tells you what is in the glass on the bedside table. Lac Tremblant, fed by the Cachée River, is the source of the hotel's drinking water, which is chlorinated and filtered near the hotel. That makes the lake below the slopes something more than a summer postcard.

It also explains a partnership that might otherwise look like a line of corporate goodwill. The hotel supports the watershed organisation for the Rouge, Petite Nation and Saumon rivers, which works on the conservation of water resources and ecosystems in the basin. The rooms have reusable glass bottles rather than plastic ones, through a water company called BeWTR.

The same page lists the less romantic parts: air-cooled refrigeration and freezers, low-flow aerators on taps, more efficient dishwashers and laundry machines. The hotel holds a Green Key Global certification, and it works with La Tablée des Chefs so that surplus food from its restaurants and events goes to people facing food insecurity.

The casino across the mountain has its own page of good works: Loto-Québec's casinos work with the Moisson food banks, and it records Mont-Tremblant staff filling 25 school backpacks for a single-parent families' organisation in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts — for the sixth year in a row when the page was written.

In summer, take a canoe out from the nautical centre at the Beach and Tennis Club, and look back at the hotel from the water. The lake you are paddling on is the one in your glass tonight.