Big Cow-Shaped Lookout

St-Georges-de-Windsor, Quebec

A roadside sign describes the rural cow lookout as a "scenic viewpoint" (or "halte des horizons" in Quebecois French) although what you see from it are farm fields. Some visitors have claimed that the cow was built on one of the highest points in the area, but to us it seemed to be just as flat as everywhere around it.

The cow was created by a local artist, Josee Perreault, in the early 2000s. It consists of boulders piled and painted to resemble the body of a reclining cow, with a big, angular metal cow head attached in front. The head serves as a viewing pointer for those who climb up to the platform on the cow's back. If you look in any direction except over the head, most of what you see are pine trees.