Parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier

Ce parc est à deux pas de chez moi, j’y vais donc assez souvent pour courir et je le trouve très chouette. Il est assez grand, il y a même une piscine extérieure. Il y a aussi des jeux pour les enfants et des petites allées pour se balader.
Je pense toutefois qu’il doit être plus chouette en été qu’en hiver, période durant laquelle, il est plutôt désert du fait de la neige et du verglas qui l’envahissent. De plus, s’il est de taille respectable, il n’est pas non plus propice aux longues balades.

I love this cool park, during the summer it is so green filed with people having fun in picnic’s, playing different social games, ping-​pong, Pétanque or just running around the park. It also has some soccer and baseball fields a wonderful kids area and even a dog park. During the winter this park becomes more mysterious once the green goes away but the people are still here, less picnic but still jogging and having fun. It has a few Hockey arena’s and the paths become an outside ice skating trails. Cool green patch in the middle of the city

My favorite park in a city full of them. I love also the surroundings. For me, that’s the best area in the popular Plateau.

Seriously the dreamiest parc ever. Huge tree canopies, lovely benches and trails, tons of dogs & people on blankets. Picnics, outdoor pool, baseball fields, and a fenced in dog parc. It is truly perfect! A+

Quoi de mieux que d’y aller se poser flâner, piqué niquer, se baigner, jouer! Un soleil caché sous les arbres du parc; des arbres nombreux, mais qui né prennent pas toute la place. Je passais souvent devant ce parc sans jamais vraiment m’y arrêter. Un beau jour, il a fallu casser cette routine et goûter au plaisir d’aller s’y reposer. Un vrai plaisir, vraiment!
Des tables, des bancs, des espaces verts, un espace de patinoire l’hiver, une piscine pour les beaux jours… des écureuils… ;) Le reflet d’un bon parc!

This one sure gets my vote, nicest pool in mtl, and the wading pool is pretty cool as well (if you happen to be 3 ft tall or still have one of those 2 – 3 yrs old bambino). Thumbs up to the administration for not having those annoying rules and regulations seen in other public pools in mtl (dark wink for the Park Decelles pool in Ville St-​Laurent). Actually, can someone explain why in the Park Decelles pool a 7 yrs old kid can’t use the pool springboard while there is no age regulation in other Montréal public pools? Are there sharks in the Decelles pool and we don’t know about it? Anyway, back to the Laurier pool, pretty nice, has this wooden beach, there are places with shadow from trees so even though you like Red Lobster, you don’t need to look like one at the end of the day, lots of showers, and a nicely confusing changing room — this shouldn’t be the first time when I unwillingly get into the ladies changing room, sometimes I wonder if it’s made so confusing on a purpose. Actually, one weird (and even up to creepy) thing is that there are toilets in the family changing room, so your kids can freely enjoy and pull one of those hard to find the proper answer observations, about this guy taking a — put he’s choice here — in the short height door toilet, such as dad, I just saw his underwear on the floor between his legs, yuk. (Mooment of silence). Anyway, besides the confusion with the changing rooms, and the absence of a dining tables area inside the pool, this is a very nice place to go. The pool itself it’s not too crowded, staff it’s polite and cool, cheap entrance fees (can someone hire the managers of the pool for the Montréal’s parking fees and tickets please? For once those guys know how to find a reasonable fee without making us feel some sort of a financial molesting like when parking a car in the Sainte-​Hélèné so called ‘public’ park area at 16 $ for the day. Oh, and on a nicer ending note, whats up with the young and restless watchers PACKED close to the springboard jumping area? I so need discretion when messing a jump into the pool or worst when loosing my swimwear under the water. Those critical moments are better kept private, instead one feels like being on the stage at the Carnegie Hall.

Je pense que c’est mon parc préféré en ville. Bön, il y a plusieurs autres endroits que j’adore, mais celui-​ci semble avoir tout ce qu’il faut pour me rendre heureuse:
1) Une belle piscine
2) Plein d’espace vert avec beaucoup d’arbre pour y passer du temps à l’ombré
3) Des tables de piqué-​nique pour ceux comme moi qui n’aiment pas vraiment être assis sur le gazon.
4) Des belles chaises longues pour se faire brunir le bout du nez
5) Des terrains de baseball, soccer, etc. pour regarder les gens jouer, ou pour jouer soi-​même
6) Un espace pour chiens pour qu’ils s’amusent sans déranger le reste de gens du parc.
7) Des tables de ping-​pong. Oui, oui. Ping. Pong.
8) Du wi-​fi gratuit pour travailler, ou juste pour perdre son temps sur le Web!
9) Un centre d’accueil avec des salles de bain.
10) Des stations pour faire de pull-​ups, des sit-​ups, etc. En fait, tout pour un beau body ;)
Avec une liste de raisons aussi longue, et pour un parc, je né pense pas qu’il y ait bien d’autres endroits qui soient meilleurs que celui-​ci!

Parc Laurier is either my favourite or second favourite park in the city. Big leafy, shady trees in the summer keep this ginger from burning to a crisp, but also a tiny skating area in the Winter to keep me entertained… this park truly has a bit of everything. The swimming pool is lovely (and freaking cold!), the grass areas are plentiful, the public washrooms are decent and close and helloooo, there are ping pong tables, niiiiice. People BBQ, drink wine and act their age here; now that’s a great Montréal park!

We’ve been playing anarchist soccer in Parc Laurier every sunday in the summer for what, like, six years now? And it’s just an awesome parc. We play next to the dog park and man, those dogs go nutso in there. It’d be awesome to do a giant soccer game — dogs vs people except they’d totally win.
But yeah, aside from soccer, there’s a sweet pool, a massive kiddy park, 2 (count’em, 2) baseball diamond, a huge massive soccer field (which we don’t play on, it’s so intimidating), and now ping-​pong tables and more nook and crannies for you to have a picnic than is even mathematically possible. It’s the kind of parc where you go and you’re bound to run into one of your buds.
So yeah, get your summer on at parc Laurier!

Parc Laurier is a 5 star park for sure, what with the newly shady and sizeable pool, the ping pong tables, the great leafy expanses of gently rolling grass dappled with adorable picnic’ers, the tidy old timey public bathrooms and overall sense of laid back community.