The Best Places to Go in Montreal This Fall

The Botanical Garden after dark. Every fall, the Montréal Botanical Garden transforms three of its gardens into an illuminated night route: the Japanese Garden, the First Nations Garden and the Chinese Garden, per the official calendar. The roughly 2 km route takes 1.5 to 2 hours and grants same-day access to the whole Botanical Garden, including the greenhouses. To see the Botanical Garden in a light you won't see the rest of the year.

The Botanical Garden's most anticipated fall event, running for decades. Three illuminated gardens — including the First Nations Garden, fully reimagined for the site's 25th anniversary with Indigenous artists.

A classic Montreal fall family outing, before the deep cold arrives.

The farm, the sugar shack and the trails. With 330 hectares along the water, Cap-Saint-Jacques is Montreal's largest green space. Its ecological farm runs family harvest activities every fall (squash, root vegetables), per the City's official calendar. For long forest walks and a lively farm, without leaving Montreal.

Montreal's largest nature park, with a beach, an ecological farm and a sugar shack. Trails along Lake of Two Mountains and the Rivière des Prairies, and a real working educational farm.

A family outing away from downtown, popular with West Island Montrealers.

The last big harvests. Jean-Talon Market is in full swing in September-October, with squash, apple and root-vegetable harvests. It's also when the market closes its outdoor aisles and moves indoors for the winter, per its official page. To feel Quebec's autumn in the stalls, before everything turns white again.

The largest public market in North America, operating since 1933. Local producers' stalls, especially loaded in September-October with the last of the season's harvests.

This is where many Montrealers stock up for fall — pickles, squash and Quebec apples.