Enid's Trips: Montreal, October 9-10, 2021

We left early on Saturday morning and walked to where we had rented a car through Turo. There was a snafu in getting the code to the car which put us in heavy traffic, worse because Canadian Thanksgiving was on Monday, so there were more people leaving town. In some respects that was a bad time to go away for the weekend, but the weather was perfect for hiking--high 70s--and the leaves were gorgeous.

We drove to Mont Megantic National Park. We had planned to hike up to the top and then back down, but it was so crowded that we weren't allowed to park at the bottom. Since we already had a park pass, we were allowed to drive to the top where we parked and then walked along the ridge and clambered over big rocks.

St Joseph

Then we drove to Magog where we stayed at a hostel. It was our first time, and we didn't really like it. We walked around Magog and had Italian for dinner followed by ice cream next to the river.

Sentier Massawippi Sainte-Catherine-de-Hadley--early morning hike through the woods, gorgeous views, very few people, We arrived very early, walked down to the beach along the river and then walked back to the car.

Next stop was Coaticook Forest Luminare Gorge Park. Arriving just as it opened, we walked across the longest suspended footbridge in North America. We hiked until early afternoon then had lunch at the restaurant there and drove back to Montreal