Yamaska National Park

We started the day at an RV campground 10 k West of St Jean sur Richelieu. We had a 30 minute bike back into town on a highway 219 but it had good shoulders before we rejoined Le Route Verde. For the rest of the day it was a very pleasant bike ride on a rail trail. Rail trails are old railway lines that have been torn up and turned into biking hiking trails. A small amount of the trail was stone but the majority was paved. The great thing about rail trails is they have a gradient of only 1-2 % which is very pleasant. We passed through Farnham and then Granby all pretty Quebec towns of eastern townships. The trail took us right through the middle of farmer's fields and Carolina forest. It felt like I was back in Ontario. Lots of pink flowering Trilliums along the sides of the trails. In areas trees had grown along the trail which offered us some break from the 20 k northwest wind and produced a tunnel effect as they hung over the trail. It was very pretty. For lunch we stopped in Farnham and ate at picnic table looking across the river at a majestic church. We made it to Yamaska Ntl park. It is much nicer than staying in an RV park and being a Monday night it is much quieter. We ate our supper by the lake and are going to have an early night. It is going to be hot tomorrow and we are going to awaken by six for an early start.Read more