Why this ride
Open upland riding with long sight lines and varied gradients. It also links naturally to Eastern Townships cultural landscape.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Eastern Townships Loop
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 170 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 54
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Check provincial road reports, wildfire closures, ferries and fuel range. Specific flag: seasonal.
Seasonal context
May-Oct
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is the metropolis of the Eastern Townships, the hilly, lake-studded region of southern Quebec that was settled by American Loyalists after the Revolution and has kept an unusual blend of English and French culture. The city sits where the Magog River meets the Saint-François, and the falls on the Magog once powered its textile mills. It was named after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a British governor, and today about a hundred and thirty thousand people live here, making it the largest city in the region.
Read the complete Sherbrooke write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sherbrooke sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Magog.
2. Magog
Lake Memphremagog starts at Magog and runs south for some forty kilometres, long and narrow between wooded hills, until it crosses the border and ends in Newport, Vermont. Most of its length lies in Quebec, but the water does not care about borders, and neither does Memphré, the lake monster that local legend has been reporting for more than a century, a long dark shape in the water that has never been photographed convincingly. Magog itself is a town of about fifteen thousand at the northern tip of the lake, with a lakeside promenade, a beach and a lively main street.
Read the complete Magog write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Magog comes up 44 km in. Next is Sutton.
3. Sutton
A ski mountain, a main street lined with old wooden and brick buildings, art galleries and a couple of good coffee shops: Sutton is the kind of small Townships town that feels lived in rather than staged. It sits in the shadow of Mont Sutton, part of the Sutton Mountains, a northern extension of Vermont's Green Mountains and therefore of the Appalachians, and the US border lies just over ten kilometres south. About four thousand people live in the town and its surrounding countryside.
Read the complete Sutton write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
87 km in you reach Sutton. Next is Sherbrooke.
4. Sherbrooke
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sherbrooke write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sherbrooke, late in the day.
Recorded source links
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