Refuge La Cabane à Sucre
Québec · Canada0 mUnguardedVerified listing
The place
Refuge "La Cabane à Sucre" at 262 m in the Eastern Townships (coordinates 45.34°N 72.21°W, Estrie, Magog / Sherbrooke / Granby area, Quebec, Canada). The name "Cabane à Sucre" (Sugar Shack) evokes the Quebec tradition of the sugar shack / maple grove: a structure in a maple grove where sap is turned into maple syrup in spring. Quebec has nearly 150 catalogued sugar shacks. Likely a leisure refuge or a former maple grove converted for other use.
Getting there
Check with local sugar shack associations (cabaneasucre.org) or Tourisme Cantons-de-l'Est.
The setting
Eastern Townships (Estrie), maple grove (sugar maple forest).
