Westmount: the hilltop city and the summit lookout
Westmount Park and its conservatory, Greene Avenue, the Victorian mansions, and the view from Summit Woods. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Greene Avenue
Start on Westmount's old commercial spine, a short hill of galleries, cafés and antiquarian shops climbing off Saint-Antoine. Walk up it slowly; it sets the tone — money, but the discreet, ivy-on-stone kind, not the flashy sort.

2. Westmount Park & the conservatory
The town's green centre, a Victorian park with a stream, a duck pond and the glass Westmount Conservatory of palms and seasonal blooms. Step into the greenhouse — small, free, warm in winter, and almost always empty on a weekday.

3. Victoria Hall & the Westmount Public Library
The Tudor-revival civic buildings beside the park — the 1899 library is one of the oldest free public libraries in Quebec. You can walk into the reading room; it still smells of a hundred years of paper.

4. The Victorian mansions of upper Westmount
Climb the residential streets above Sherbrooke — Belvedere, Sunnyside, the terraced lanes where stone houses sit on tiered gardens up the slope. The higher you go, the grander the houses and the wider the city behind you.

5. Summit Woods (Bois Summit)
A genuine pocket of old forest at the top of the hill, a bird sanctuary left deliberately wild. The paths are unpaved and steep in places. Quieter than Mont-Royal and, in May, just as loud with warblers.

6. Summit Circle lookout (Belvédère Summit)
The crescent road around the crown of the hill, with the lookout giving the long view south and west over the city and the river. The reward for the climb, and a different angle from the Mont-Royal one. Walk down toward Vendôme to finish.

Westmount: the hilltop city and the summit lookout