The region of Mont-Tremblant and Lac Tremblant, with its unspoiled wilderness, was first inhabited by the Algonquin American Indians who came to hunt and fish, returning to the Outaouais region at the end of the season.

Chief Commandant was the last known American Indian in the region when the forest companies arrived early in the 1800s.

The forest companies hoarded the legendary whine pines described in American Indian oral tradition. A dam was built to float out the wood, which changed the level of the lake water and enlarged the wetlands, forever changing the shoreline of the lake.

The first chairlift was installed at Mont Tremblant in 1939. Mont-Tremblant Lodge was opened in the same year on the site it still stands today, in the pedestrian village though it was moved to fit the new expansion by Intrawest.

In its early years, Lowell Thomas, the American radio broadcaster, was an avid skier who helped popularize the resort. Thomas would broadcast many editions of his radio show from Mont-Tremblant. The resort has a ski lift and trails named after him and other early devotees.

The resort operated independently until 1991 when it was purchased by Intrawest.

Intrawest immediately began to build the pedestrian village, and new ski lifts including the gondola. Other changes included re-building the Grand Manitou summit lodge.

The city of Mont-Tremblant was created in 2000 from the merger of the municipalities of Mont-Tremblant and Lac-Tremblant-Nord, the village of Saint-Jovite and the parish of Saint-Jovite. After a referendum, the municipality of Lac-Tremblant-Nord decided to part from the new city and returned to its former status as municipality in 2006.