Parc Chauveau

Parc Chauveau is a beautiful, multi-activity park. Cross-country skiing is free (no equipment rentals available) and there is a nice building with modern, clean restrooms if you need to warm up or take a break. You can get to the park on the RTC 804 line, but you’ll need to traverse the park on foot to get to the ski trails.

Unfortunately, the cross-country skiing there is very limited. They boast 8 km of trails but if you view their map, you’ll see that trail 1B traces the circumference of the cc ski area in only 2 km. Trail 1A claims to add another 1.9 km of skiing but around 1.7 of those kms just retrace trail 1B. I estimate that there are really only 4km of novel trails there.

If you just want to do 1 or 2 km of flat skiing, then the easy trails there are very nice. The difficult trails are not really technical but there is a descent on trail 1B that is ridiculous with a narrow water crossing at the bottom. I’m not ashamed to say I took off my skis and walked down that hill.

I mostly recommend this park to groups of people that want to do different activities – walk the dog, ice skate, snowshoe, tobogganing, etc. If you want to put some serious kms on your skis, though, then I think this park will make you a bit dizzy.