TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues

Montréal is an island, and its parks are read through water and relief first. Parc du Mont-Royal wraps the 233-metre summit the city built itself around; Parc Jean-Drapeau spreads over two islands in the river, one of them raised out of the water in ten months for the 1967 world’s fair; Parc-nature de l’Île-de-la-Visitation runs past mill ruins three centuries old; and Parc René-Lévesque reaches almost two kilometres into lac Saint-Louis along a man-made jetty. Elsewhere the ground is flat and history supplies the landscape: a military parade ground at Parc La Fontaine, the first major-league ballpark outside the United States at Parc Jarry.

After that they diverge by scale, canopy and distance. Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques covers 330 hectares of forest, working farm fields and lakeshore beach at the western tip of the island; Parc Jeanne-Mance has fourteen, every one of them programmed, facing the mountain. Choose by the trip and by the season: some of these are one metro station from the centre, others a long bus ride out, and winter here is a full season rather than a gap.

At a glance

#	Place	Score	Reviews	Stands out for
1	Parc du Mont-Royal	⭐ 9.7	26 751	Editors' pick
2	Parc La Fontaine	⭐ 9.3	14 530	—
3	Parc Jarry	⭐ 9.3	8 390	—
4	Parc Angrignon	⭐ 9.3	7 719	—
5	Parc Jean-Drapeau	⭐ 9.3	7 031	—
6	Parc Maisonneuve	⭐ 9.5	4 531	—
7	Parc Jeanne-Mance	⭐ 9.3	4 508	—
8	Parc-nature de l'Île-de-la-Visitation	⭐ 9.3	3 743	—
9	Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques	⭐ 9.1	2 938	—
10	Parc René-Lévesque	⭐ 9.5	2 913	—

Highlights

Editors' pick:
Parc du Mont-Royal

Opening hours

Open late: Parc du Mont-Royal, Parc La Fontaine, Parc Angrignon, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Parc Maisonneuve, Parc Jeanne-Mance, Parc-nature de l'Île-de-la-Visitation, Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques, Parc René-Lévesque.

Check the hours before you set out — they shift on holidays and out of season.

Full ranking

1. Parc du Mont-Royal · ⭐ 9.7

(26751 reviews)

1260 Chem. Remembrance, Montréal, QC H3H 1A2, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.7/10 · 26751 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:39 Address: 1260 Chem. Remembrance, Montréal, QC H3H 1A2, Канада Montreal built itself around a mountain, and the mountain stayed a park. Spread over a little more than two hundred hectares, Parc du Mont-Royal wraps around the main summit of Mount Royal, 233 metr…

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2. Parc La Fontaine · ⭐ 9.3

(14530 reviews)

3819 Av. Calixa-Lavallée, Montréal, QC H2H 1P4, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 14530 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:40 Address: 3819 Av. Calixa-Lavallée, Montréal, QC H2H 1P4, Канада If Mount Royal is Montreal's mountain, Parc La Fontaine is its living room. Some forty hectares set down in the heart of the Plateau-Mont-Royal, a vault of century-old trees, two ponds joined by a…

«It's a very large park. A lot of paths to running and walking. In the center of the park,…»

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3. Parc Jarry · ⭐ 9.3

(8390 reviews)

205 Rue Gary-Carter, Montréal, QC H2R 2V7, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 8390 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:41 Address: 205 Rue Gary-Carter, Montréal, QC H2R 2V7, Канада There are parks you visit and parks you use: Parc Jarry belongs firmly to the second category. Thirty-six hectares of open lawn, sports grounds and paths lined with sugar maples and American elms, set d…

«Very beautiful place with a nice little lake. You can see people are around all smiling an…»

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4. Parc Angrignon · ⭐ 9.3

(7719 reviews)

3400 Boul des Trinitaires, Montréal, QC H4E 4J3, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 7719 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:41 Address: 3400 Boul des Trinitaires, Montréal, QC H4E 4J3, Канада Ninety-seven hectares, twenty thousand trees and a long winding body of water about 1.1 kilometres end to end: Parc Angrignon is the great lung of Montreal's Sud-Ouest, and the only park in the ci…

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5. Parc Jean-Drapeau · ⭐ 9.3

(7031 reviews)

Montreal, QC H3C 1A9, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 7031 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:42 Address: Монреаль, Квебек H3C 1A9, Канада There is no other park like this one in Canada. Close to 270 hectares spread over two islands in the St. Lawrence River, one métro stop from downtown: Île Sainte-Hélène, natural, wooded, fortified since the nineteenth c…

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6. Parc Maisonneuve · ⭐ 9.5

(4531 reviews)

4601 R. Sherbrooke E, Montréal, QC H1X 2B2, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.5/10 · 4531 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:43 Address: 4601 R. Sherbrooke E, Montréal, QC H1X 2B2, Канада Few green spaces in Montreal offer a contrast this blunt: on one side the leaning silhouette of the Olympic Stadium tower, on the other grassy hollows, stands of mature trees and a calm you would not e…

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7. Parc Jeanne-Mance · ⭐ 9.3

(4508 reviews)

4422 Av. de l'Esplanade, Montréal, QC H2W 1T2, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 4508 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:43 Address: 4422 Av. de l'Esplanade, Montréal, QC H2W 1T2, Канада This is one of the rare places in Montreal where you feel the pulse of the city and the pulse of the mountain at the same time. Backing onto the east flank of Mount Royal, facing the winged figure a…

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8. Parc-nature de l'Île-de-la-Visitation · ⭐ 9.3

(3743 reviews)

Parc-nature de l'Île-de-la-Visitation — Park

2425 Boul. Gouin E, Montréal, QC H2B 2P5, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.3/10 · 3743 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:44 Address: 2425 Boul. Gouin E, Montréal, QC H2B 2P5, Канада This is the most urban of Montreal's nature parks, and paradoxically one of the richest in history. Thirty-four hectares stretched out like a ribbon along the Rivière des Prairies, with an island in the…

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9. Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques · ⭐ 9.1

(2938 reviews)

20099 Boul Gouin O, Pierrefonds, QC H9K 1C6, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.1/10 · 2938 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:44 Address: 20099 Boul Gouin O, Pierrefonds, QC H9K 1C6, Канада Three hundred and thirty hectares: this is the largest park on the island of Montreal, and the only one where you can, in the same day, swim in a lake, meet the animals of a certified organic market-g…

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10. Parc René-Lévesque · ⭐ 9.5

(2913 reviews)

398 Chem. du Canal, Lachine, QC H8S 4G2, Canada

← TOP parks in Montreal: 10 verified venues Park · Montreal · ⭐ 9.5/10 · 2913 reviews · updated: 2026-08-04 15:54:45 Address: 398 Chem. du Canal, Lachine, QC H8S 4G2, Канада Picture a narrow tongue of land, nearly two kilometres long, reaching out into Lac Saint-Louis with water on both sides — and, every fifty metres or so, a monumental sculpture planted in the grass. This i…

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Questions & answers

Which place tops the ranking? Parc du Mont-Royal — score 9.7/10 (Editors' pick).

How many places are in the list and how were they chosen? The selection includes 10 places chosen by our editors based on rating and reviews.

What is the average rating in the top? 9.4/10 — average score of 10 places in the list.

Which place has the most reviews? Parc du Mont-Royal — 26751 visitor reviews.

With a toddler, go flat: Parc Jarry sets wading pool, play modules and open lawns on ground with no slope, and Parc La Fontaine crosses easily with a stroller. For running, the chemin Olmsted in Parc du Mont-Royal climbs eight kilometres of soft gravel at an even grade; the loop at Parc Maisonneuve gives three kilometres without a single intersection. Water varies: supervised swimming at Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques, pedal boats on the mountain lake, a circuit of the water at Parc Angrignon, whose maple stand holds shade in a heat wave and silence at dawn.

Be honest about the edges. Seven of these parks sit within reach of the centre; the western tip, the rivière des Prairies and Lachine get one apiece. Nothing here maps cycling routes between parks, or the rules for dogs outside the fenced runs, or what stays lit after dark — at Parc Angrignon only a 1.6-kilometre stretch does. Wheelchair access is settled only for the chemin Olmsted and the main paths of Parc La Fontaine.

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