Take your pick: adrenaline packed or slow and contemplative?
Updated on Jan 10, 2025
Over the past few years, Fatbiking has been in full expansion and is attracting more and more adepts in the region. Are you one of them? Or, would you be tempted to try this fun experience? You can go to any of the following seven places where you’ll be able to pedal in the snow in the Townships!
This outdoor sports centre is the perfect place to try a fatbike and to practise this sport with your family! The trails are essentially made for beginners who’ll be able to enjoy eight trails on a flat to moderately inclined terrain, totalling almost 10 kilometres. A fleet of 25 bikes, including 6 child-size fatbikes, is available to rent on weekends. You can even reserve on line.
At the Bromont National Cycling Center (CNCB), you can explore the 3,5 km of trails accessible to all. After that, you can continue your ride in the network of the Parc des Sommets and go to Mount Oak which offers more than 15 km of easy, intermediate and advanced fatbike trails.
At Mont-Bellevue, the trails reserved for fatbikes total about thirteen kilometers and are mostly for intermediate level riders. A friendly tip: Start out in the parking lot in front of the park’s secondary entrance, on Dunant Street, you’ll already be almost at the top of the mountain! You don't have your own fatbike? You can rent one at the location center at the ski resort of Mont-Bellevue,
The Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook offers a total of 17 kilometres of fatbike trails, some exclusively reserved for this sport, while others are shared with snowshoe adepts. The trails vary from family and easy grades (11 km) to intermediate levels (5,5 km). Two fatbikes for adults are available for rentals.
With over 25 kilometres of trails, the Parc National du Mont-Orford has the biggest fatbike network of trails of all levels in the region. About ten kilometres of these trails have been rated as easy; The others are classed either intermediate or difficult. You can rent equipment at Le Cerisier service centre and if you come with your family, 17-year-olds or younger can try a fatbike for free. Good to know: one of the trails (marked as difficult) links the National Park to the Mount Orford ski Station where you can also rent equipment.
Since few winters, the Parc National de la Yamaska offers 13.5 kilometres of well-groomed trails for fatbikes. Part of the network of trails follows the Choinière Reservoir and is fairly flat. Like the Parc National du Mont-Orford, here, rentals are available and 17-year-olds and younger can borrow one of the two reserved fatbikes for free.
Maintained by a team of devoted volunteers, the [Fat bike trails of Lac Brompton offer more than 25 km of mostly easy and intermediate levels. The wide routes run through the forest and will take you to some superb points of view of the snow-covered lakes of Brompton. You can rent a regular fatbike or electric fatbike at the Club.
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