Montréal is understood for summer time road festivals and open-air occasions, however the outside enjoyable doesn’t cease when the climate will get chilly. This January additionally marks the beginning of Montréal’s 375th anniversary – guess on loads of celebratory snow-and-ice themed outside actions all winter.
Winter sports activities motion
The primary of Montréal’s 375th anniversary occasions begins with Les Hivernales, an action-packed program for all-ages, that includes outside hockey video games, curling, a cleaning soap field derby on St-Denis, an ice-canoe problem and extra. Within the coronary heart of downtown, the Barbegazi winter motion sports activities pageant installs an skill-testing impediment course January 6-Eight and 13-15, together with possibilities to attempt snowskating, fatbiking, wooden slicing and Christmas-tree throwing.
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Go play within the snow, ice skate, journey the ferris wheel and a lot extra at family-oriented Fête des Neiges at Parc Jean-Drapeau Jan. 14-15 and Feb. 5-6. Ice skate on the Old Port’s Natrel Skating Rink, Mount Royal Park’s Beaver Lake, Park La Fontaine and on the Olympic Stadium Esplanade’s Village Mammouth the place there’s not solely a refrigerated rink however a tube slide, food and drinks, stay music, a Télétoon leisure space and extra. Spin fairy-tale pictures in big zoetropes at this yr’s Luminothérapie interactive-art playground at Place des Festivals to Jan. 29. And discover the town’s hockey historical past with our guide to Montréal’s hockey hotspots.
Chilly-weather celebration zone
Outside digital music pageant Igloofest goes all out this yr with 4 weekends of music – that includes Carl Cox, Apparat, Dave Clarke and lots of extra producers – plus a Nordik village, Nordik video games, ice slide and Off-Igloofest evenings. February’s additionally in high-quality type for MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE, an enormous meals and cultural occasion that spans eating places, indoor venues and outside levels – there’s additionally a Ferris wheel, big slide, light-up curling, ILLUMINART projections and epic all-nighter Nuit Blanche. Gown stylishly for all of it with our guide to buying winter wear in Montréal.
Mountains and forests
When you can snowshoe, hike, sled and cross-country ski your approach round Mount Royal Park’s 22 km of trails or Parc Maisonneuve’s 11 km of trails in the midst of the town, you may additionally make a day trip to a close-by mountain. Downhill ski, snowboard, cross-country ski and snowshoe at Mont Tremblant and different mountains within the Laurentians or Mont Sutton and elsewhere within the Eastern Townships. Whether or not you’re within the metropolis or prepared to make a journey into the countryside, a go to to a standard Québecois urban cabane à sucre or sugar shack in and around Montréal is a should from late February to early April – eat sausages, pancakes, meat pie and a lot extra till you’re full, and go for a horse-drawn sled experience or stroll by way of the maple woods.
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