Québec

Mont Sutton

Autumn Guide ↗ put the peak at Parc national du Mont-Orford around October 5. That day has gone, so the newest pictures below are the truer guide to what is left on the trees.

Photographs of Mont Sutton and the country around it, newest first. Each is shown with the day it was taken.

Photographs by date

An open lift corridor descends through broad orange and red woodland, broken by green crowns and distant ridges. — Mont Sutton wooded slopes
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Bernard Brault / Mont SUTTON · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Mont SUTTON, Eastern Townships, Québec
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Orange and yellow crowns remain readable below a mostly conifer-covered slope and an open rock viewpoint. — Mont Sutton — another mountain angle
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Bernard Brault / Mont SUTTON · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved ↗
Mont SUTTON, Eastern Townships, Québec
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From high over the mountain, a long ridge of orange and red hardwoods runs to the horizon, with the lodge and dark green spruce in the foreground. — Mont Sutton slopes from above
Photograph · October 3, 2026
Photograph by Mont SUTTON · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mont Sutton, Sutton, Québec
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Tall birches with thinning tops and green leaves, and one maple at the edge gone red and orange. — Birch and red maple, Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton
Photograph · October 1, 2026
Photograph by TanyaV · iNaturalist ↗ · CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton, Québec
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From above, a creek winds through a broad marsh between unbroken green hardwood and conifer forest, low mountains on the horizon. — Marsh valley near Fitch Bay
Photograph · September 17, 2026
Photograph by SGirard84 · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Near Fitch Bay, Stanstead township, Québec
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Earlier autumns

Taken between late September and late October in earlier years, these show how the season runs here.

2025

A country road curves past a fence toward a steep hillside of orange, red and gold hardwoods, two cyclists paused at the verge. — Sutton back road below a coloured hillside
Photograph · October 5, 2025
Photograph by Brewso · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Sutton, Québec
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Orange and yellow maples edge a ski run that looks out over a valley of turning forest to Mont Éléphant and the lake. — Owl's Head slope toward Mont Éléphant
Photograph · October 4, 2025
Photograph by cathfragment · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mont Owl's Head, Potton, overlooking Lake Memphremagog
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Orange, red and yellow hardwoods line the ski lift down toward the blue lake, with coloured hills and Mont Orford across the water. — Lake Memphremagog from Owl's Head lift line
Photograph · October 4, 2025
Photograph by cathfragment · Flickr ↗ · All Rights Reserved
Mont Owl's Head, Potton, overlooking Lake Memphremagog
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Spruce and yellow birch in front, then ridges of red, orange and gold hardwoods rolling to the far hills. — Jay Peak summit view in full colour
Photograph · September 27, 2025
Photograph by f.flibotte · Flickr ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ↗
Summit of Jay Peak, Jay, Vermont
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2022

2012

2008

About these views

The photographs show different views on the ski mountain. Compare their own dates with Orford and Magog; elevations and scenery differ.

Photographs by date

Mont Sutton wooded slopes

Mont Sutton — another mountain angle

Mont Sutton slopes from above

Birch and red maple, Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton

Marsh valley near Fitch Bay

Earlier autumns

2025

Sutton back road below a coloured hillside

Owl's Head slope toward Mont Éléphant

Lake Memphremagog from Owl's Head lift line

Jay Peak summit view in full colour

2022

Magog lakefront promenade

2012

Mont Orford slopes in sun and cloud

2008

Mont Orford base from the chairlift

About these views