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Mont Royal

Mont Royal - 235M

213M Prominence

45.50859, -73.58970

August 8, 2025

1H 44M C2C/Moving

189M Elevation gain/ descent

9.2KM

Mont Royal is the green space that is just on the edge of town in Montreal. I had previously hiked around on it in a previous visit to Montreal, as there is a fantastic view point overlooking the city on a different part of the Mont. Most people will not bother to check out the real summit as it kind of sucks and offers no views, but the real summit is where the massive cell tower is. After eating a delicious dinner at the Denise, the restaurant my sister is working at, I started walking down Park avenue. Park Avenue is a pretty boring street to be honest, but eventually I turned up into the trails in the Mont Royal park. The trail was a well graded gravel road at first, then it became more of a trail as the trees thickened. There is an absolute maze of trails everywhere on this peak, and some are more official than others. To make it to the summit as quickly as possible I ended up taking a quite steep and severely eroded trail that led to a fence, I had to squeeze behind the fence to get back to an established trail just below the summit. After taking a quick picture of the summit, I started making my way back down, I took different trails on the way down, and then walked back at dusk along the bustling Saint Laurent street back to my Sister's place.  

Mont Royal is the Green lump, captured from the plane the night before



















Much of this bag was road walking



















Nearing the Mont, in the park



















The much eroded trail 



















The summit cell tower



















Summit















A good view from the descent of the setting sun over hazy Montreal















Route








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