In Saint-Hippolyte the street is not closed at all times: it is closed at night, in winter. And since the town's two sources do not give the same dates, here are both. By-law SQ-900, section 26, in its administrative codification current to July 10, 2025, prohibits parking any vehicle on public roads “from November 15 to December 23 inclusively, and from January 3 to April 15 inclusively each year, between midnight and seven in the morning”. The town's “Déneigement” page instead reads: November 15 to December 23, December 27 to 30, and January 3 to April 1, between midnight and 7 a.m. We plan on the longer period — the safer one for you — and any doubt is settled at 450 563-2505. In municipal parking lots the ban runs from November 15 to April 15, midnight to 7 a.m.
What winter mostly changes is how crowded the driveway gets. Zoning allows two temporary shelters per main building or per lot, from October 15 to May 1, more than one metre from a lot line, no larger than 50 m² and no taller than 3 metres. Two shelters is double what many towns allow — and it is half as much room for a dumpster. The snow has nowhere to go but your own property: by-law 1225-22 forbids carting, pushing, blowing or dumping it onto the public road, “onto lakes, water bodies and wetlands” or into ditches, and zoning adds that storing snow may not reduce the minimum number of parking spaces required. A snow-clearing contractor working here holds an annual municipal permit, valid October 15 to May 1, with proof of at least $1,000,000 in liability insurance.
And in winter the municipal way out is shut. According to the regional county's 2026 calendar, the Saint-Hippolyte drop-off centre opens only from April 22 to October 24, Wednesday to Saturday; outside that window only the regional facility in Saint-Jérôme still takes material — and it is in any case the only one, along with Sainte-Sophie, that accepts construction debris. Add snow clearing, triggered “after snowfalls of 5 to 7.5 cm” across more than 198 km of roads and 1.62 km of sidewalks, and a Saint-Hippolyte driveway has to hold the snow, the bins, sometimes two shelters, and the dumpster. Since the street is no fallback, that gets planned when you book.