The Botanical Garden is one Montreal’s proud sites attracting up to a million visitors every year. It was founded in 1931 with the purpose of educating the public and preserving endangered plant species. The many unique Gardens and greenhouses the Garden offers aee spread over an area of 75 hectares. The Garden is home to more than 22.000 types and of plants, trees and flowers, as well as more than 200 bird species. It is considered to be one of the world’s most important botanical gardens and was selected as a National Historic site of Canada in 2008.

The Botanical Garden is located in the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie district of Montreal and is only a few minutes’ walk from the Olympic Stadium. The Olympic Stadium was built to be the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and has since become home to the baseball and football teams in Montreal.

Fitness near Botanical Garden

There is a great variety and range of fitness opportunities in Montreal offering everything from the newest class concepts, like HIIT and CrossFit, to traditional gym facilities and functional areas. The fitness scene in Montreal is like the rest of the world experiencing an increasing presence of boutique fitness studios, and a clear separation between the low-cost fitness facilities and premium studio concepts. Being home to millions of travelers every year the fitness and gym facilities in Montreal have started to implement services that make it easier for them to attract the fitness enthusiastic visitors and service them in a very convenient way when they enter the gym. One of the popular services are the TrainAway platform that removes all the barriers for the travelers to find and buy access to gyms. Close by the Botanical Garden in Montreal you will find one of the gyms that have adopted TrainAway, Nautilus Plus – St-Léonard.