Day 1
La Cabane d’à Côté
Sugar shack · Saint-Benoît-de-Mirabel, QC
Book the holiday menu at this working sugar shack in a maple grove; it opens for the season on November 5.
Open the pick →WinterSki weekend
Mirabel, QC to Mont-Tremblant, QC
North from Montréal for a sugar shack holiday menu, two Laurentian bistros and a day on the slopes at Tremblant. Short drives, every stop a pick, and unlimited Ikon days at the end.
Day 1
Sugar shack · Saint-Benoît-de-Mirabel, QC
Book the holiday menu at this working sugar shack in a maple grove; it opens for the season on November 5.
Open the pick →Day 1
Modern Cuisine · Piedmont, QC
Stop in Piedmont at the bright, convivial bistro named for the balsam fir.
Open the pick →Day 2
Tavern · Val-David, QC
Order Scotch eggs, wings or côte de boeuf at two brothers' riverside pub in Val-David.
Open the pick →Day 3
Ski resort · Mont-Tremblant, QC
Ski 102 trails beside a pedestrian-only village.
Open the pick →Ski weekDecember to March
Canmore, AB to Revelstoke, BC
Five resorts in a week, every stop a pick: Sunshine and Lake Louise from Banff, then west on the Powder Highway to Kicking Horse and Revelstoke. Know your pass first, since Kicking Horse is on Epic and the rest are on Ikon.
8 stops · every stop a pick
RomanticDecember to March
Québec City, QC to La Malbaie, QC
Two nights in Old Québec, then east along the St. Lawrence to Charlevoix. Québec terroir in the Upper Town and Old Port, small plates in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, and Baie-Saint-Paul for the last dinner.
6 stops · 5 of them picks