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Montreal Botanical Garden

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14% trees around it and 533 species recorded.

35Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km40%
  • species recorded533

The forest around

14% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 33%Grassland 16%Wetland 1%Bare ground 2%Built-up 48%Trees 11%Grassland 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 82%Trees 12%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 15%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 65%Trees 22%Grassland 9%Wetland 0%Water 12%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 54%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km33%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km12%
  • 6–10 km22%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Grassland6%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up82%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

533 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Common buttonbush
Common buttonbushCephalanthus occidentalis20 recordsRufino Osorio (also known as Desmodium ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Purple Willow
Purple WillowSalix purpurea20 recordsXemenendura · CC BY-SA 4.0
Purpleflowering raspberry
Purpleflowering raspberryRubus odoratus19 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Sten assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara19 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bloodroot
BloodrootSanguinaria canadensis19 recordsUpstateNYer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Buckthorn
BuckthornRhamnus cathartica18 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field Bindweed
Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis17 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Garden cosmos
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus14 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense14 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
White trillium
White trilliumTrillium grandiflorum13 recordsPaul Johnston · CC BY-SA 3.0
Climbing Nightshade
Climbing NightshadeSolanum dulcamara13 recordsDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA · CC BY 2.0
Northern maidenhair
Northern maidenhairAdiantum pedatum12 recordsDoug McGrady from Warwick, RI, USA · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

35out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 40%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 533Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-6°-16°72 mm
  2. Feb-4°-15°68 mm
  3. Mar2°-8°76 mm
  4. Apr10°0°95 mm
  5. May18°8°93 mm
  6. Jun23°14°109 mm
  7. Jul26°17°95 mm
  8. Aug26°16°98 mm
  9. Sep22°11°88 mm
  10. Oct13°4°114 mm
  11. Nov5°-2°81 mm
  12. Dec-2°-11°98 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Montreal Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Canada.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 40% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

533 species have been recorded around it: 294 plants, 8 fungi, 221 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common buttonbush, Purple Willow and Purpleflowering raspberry.

The best time to walk is in May.

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Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Halte de véhicules récréatifs de la Marina de Longueuilcampsite · 4.4 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Gîte le Simoneplace to stay · 4.7 km · 218 within 10 km
  • Ct 0030nearest town · 1.5 km in a straight line
  • Montréal / Saint-Hubert Metropolitan Airport (YHU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at YUL airport (Montréal)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Montreal Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 km
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1,009picnic sites within 4 km
  • 331shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 22viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère Léo-Ayotte, Observatoire de la Tour de Montréal, Pont Jacques Cartier and 19 more
  • 6visitor centres within 6 kmINFORMATION, Infotouriste, Pavillon d'information and 3 more
  • 776car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmHalte de véhicules récréatifs de la Marina de Longueuil, Espace VR Molson, SEPAQ Camping Grosbois
  • 218places to stay within 10 kmGîte le Simone, Gîte touristique le Saint-André-des-Arts, Tru by Hilton Montreal Centre-Ville and 215 more
  • 383restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Montreal Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Mount Royal233 m · 6.3 kmMont Royal6.3 kmSommet d'Outremont218 m · 6.7 kmWestmount Summit201 m · 8.3 kmMont Saint-Bruno218 m · 20 km
Islandyasthe island
Île Jésus242 km²
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lac des Dauphins44 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Rio Tinto Alcan PlanetariumBortle 9 · 1.3 kmDow PlanetariumBortle 9 · 7.1 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Montreal Tower0.9 kmGrande roue de Montréal5.8 kmMount Royal233 m · 6.3 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Saint-Leonard Cavern4.7 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Un jardin à soi, oeuvre de Michel Goulet
Joanne Lévesque · CC BY-SA 3.0
12amcoffee botanical garden
Vincentsnider1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aire de récréation au Jardin Botanique de Montréal - panoramio
Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Montreal Botanical Garden

Canada

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 40%Wild
  • 533Species

Larose Forest

Canada · 127 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 405Species

See the guide

Green Mountain National Forest

United States · 183 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 460Species

See the guide

White Mountain National Forest

United States · 236 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 168Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894652) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species425,188 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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