Tour Vert - Eastern Townships

Travel the Green Way

Tour Vert is a one week bicycle tour where cyclists ride from Montréal to Québec City. On this tour you'll have a chance to explore two of Canada's most popular cities, Montréal and Québec City, and explore the Eastern Townships region of the province of Québec.

Tour Vert starts in the heart of Montréal

We encourage cyclists to arrive early before the start of the tour and explore this exciting city. Travel through and stay in attractive smaller historic villages along the route.

The terrain on Tour Vert is fairly hilly in parts and shortened those days make them manageable.

  

Tour Itinerary

Montréal, Québec City and the Eastern Townships

Tour Vert is a one week bicycle tour where cyclists ride from Montréal to Québec City.

Tour Vert starts in the heart of Montréal. From downtown Montréal cross the St. Lawrence River where you are on a dedicated bike route through the suburban sprawl on the South Shore. Follow the Richelieu River to Saint-Jean and from there travel overland to the north end of Lake Champlain.

Ride east, to les Cantons-de-l'Est

Then head into the heart of les Cantons-de-l'Est, the Eastern Townships district that has long been a vacation destination for Montrealers. This is an area of many villages and you ride through Sutton and Knowlton, two charming communities with lovely historic homes. For a while the route follows the shores of Lake Mephremagog, a name from the Algonquian language meaning "very big expanse of water."

From the village of Magog we follow the Magog River to Sherbrooke. Travel to Victoriaville and Plessisville. Plessiville calls itself the maple capital of the world. Québec is justly famous for its maple syrup and that nectar is exported around the world from this region.