Quebec Cheese Route (Route des Fromages)

How It Works

The first Route des fromages fins du Québec started in 1999, lived for a while as an app, and paused in 2024. The new version is a website built for phones: pick a region, and each circuit opens as a driving route in Google Maps with the stops in order. Each circuit runs from about 30 km to 480 km.

The Circuits

• Estrie (Eastern Townships): Le Campagnard, Nouvelle France, La Station, Laiterie de Coaticook, Les Broussailles. See Eastern Townships cheese.
• Montérégie Ouest: Missiska, Le Métayer, Fritz Kaiser, Julio, La Fromagerie Gourmande de Bromont and the Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac.
• Montérégie Est: Polyethnique, St-Guillaume and Lemaire.
• Centre-du-Québec: Rang 9, Fromagerie Victoria, the Fromagerie du Presbytère, Fromage Warwick, Latino-Rumba, P'tit Plaisir and La Chaudière.
• Capitale-Nationale: Les Rivières and Ferme Audet in Quebec City, Les Fromages de l'isle d'Orléans, and Laiterie Charlevoix and Famille Migneron.
• Chaudière-Appalaches: Bergeron, Ferme Phylum, Victoria in Saint-Nicolas, Terroir de Bellechasse, Fromagerie de l'Île-aux-Grues and Ferme Paysanne.
• Lac Saint-Jean: Médard, Fromagerie Perron, the Musée de la Vieille Fromagerie Perron, Au Pays des Bleuets and Bouchard Artisan Bio.
• Fjord du Saguenay: Boivin, Blackburn, St-Laurent and Riverin du Lac.
• Also: Beauce, Outaouais, Lanaudière, Mauricie-Portneuf, Basses-Laurentides, Bas-Saint-Laurent and a 480 km Route du Nord through the Laurentians.

Stops With the Most to Do

The Perron museum in Saint-Prime, an 1895 cheddar factory with tours and a cheesemaking workshop, June to September. Fromagerie La Station in Compton, with a free self-guided ÉCONOMUSÉE open all year. The monks' shop at Saint-Benoît-du-Lac. The Friday evenings in Sainte-Élizabeth-de-Warwick from late May to late September. In Saguenay, Fromagerie Boivin at 2152 chemin Saint-Joseph in La Baie opens daily, from 8:00 to 21:00 between May and September and 8:30 to 18:00 the rest of the year.

When to Go

June to early October. Many dairy bars and terraces are summer only, the Perron museum closes at the end of September, and island stops such as Île d'Orléans and Île-aux-Grues keep short seasons. Most farm shops on the main circuits open all year, with shorter winter hours.

Oka and Montreal

The factory that makes Oka is not open to visitors, but the Abbaye d'Oka shop sells it. In the city, the Jean-Talon and Atwater markets carry cheese from all over the province.

What Happened to the Victoriaville Cheese Festival?

The Festival des fromages fins de Victoriaville was renamed Fromages, Bouffe et Traditions, and Tourisme Victoriaville announced its June 2025 edition as the final one. No cheese festival has replaced it.