First pick
Kinsmen Park
Park or garden
1.7 ha
Centralin the middle of Grimshaw
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.00.5%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Grimshaw · parks, protected land & trails
Protected land is scarce around Grimshaw: 0.5% within 10 km
For a provincial park, Peace River Wildland Provincial Park lies 9.1 km off. The nearest national park is more than 100 km away. The 10 km around town hold one protected area.
Protected land
0.5%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
1
within 10 km, 1 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
9.1 km
Peace River Wildland Provincial Park
Against other towns
Each figure for Grimshaw, set against Canadian towns
Each figure against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (not city hubs or reserves), with the town marked and the typical one’s line. This page carries no grade, because Canada’s grading doesn’t cover the outdoors; the comparisons are the point.
Protected within 10 km0.5%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town0%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas1Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Grimshaw is 9th from the bottom for protected land
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (2,759 to 2,838 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Protected within 10 km
Grimshaw0.5%
Towns its size4.5%
Towns in Alberta0.4%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Grimshaw1
Towns its size6
Towns in Alberta2
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Grimshaw0
Towns its size0
Towns in Alberta0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Grimshaw is weakest for protected land nearby: 31 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tofino BC | 41% | 21% | 14 | 0 | 34 |
| 2 | Léry QC | 27% | 3.4% | 31 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Forestville QC | 26% | 1% | 22 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Atikokan ON | 19% | 1.1% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel QC | 18% | 23% | 83 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Little Current ON | 13% | 10% | 36 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | Maria QC | 9.5% | 1% | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Cultus Lake BC | 9.3% | 52% | 14 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Saint-Côme QC | 9.2% | 0.8% | 24 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Addington Highlands ON | 8.9% | 8.2% | 37 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | Rivière-Beaudette QC | 7.6% | 0.1% | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Marritt ON | 7.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Westcliffe East ON | 7.1% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Senneterre QC | 7% | 9.3% | 166 | 0 | 8 |
| 15 | Ferme-Neuve QC | 5.6% | 8.2% | 42 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Jerome ON | 5.3% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Vernon River PE | 5.1% | 4.5% | 48 | 11 | 3 |
| 18 | Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part ON | 5.1% | 4.9% | 81 | 0 | 28 |
| 19 | Yamachiche QC | 5% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Front of Yonge ON | 4.9% | 6% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Sainte-Luce QC | 4% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Vars ON | 3.8% | 1.4% | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | Laurier-Station QC | 3.7% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Rosthern No. 403 SK | 2.2% | 2.6% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Lacolle QC | 1.9% | 1.1% | 34 | 1 | 3 |
| 26 | Woodcroft AB | 1.9% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Rougemont QC | 1.5% | 1.6% | 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Saint-Prime QC | 1.5% | 3.4% | 10 | 0 | 7 |
| 29 | Turner Valley AB | 1.4% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Mathers MB | 1.4% | 0% | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 31 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley BC | 1.1% | 3.5% | 28 | 3 | 6 |
| 32 | Grimshaw AB | 0.5% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Downtown West End AB | 0.5% | 0% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Westbrook Estates AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Greenview AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 36 | Kameyosek AB | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 37 | Meyonohk AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 | Kuujjuaq QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 | Kildare AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Newton AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The map
The green map of Grimshaw
The town’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
Green: OpenStreetMap parks, gardens, playing fields and woods. Hatched: CPCAD protected areas.© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); CPCAD (OGL-Canada)
Places to walk
7 named parks and woods to walk in near Grimshaw
The biggest is Kinsmen Park, 1.7 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
7 named parks and woods, 6 ha in all
Parks & gardens 6.1 ha
Two places, Kinsmen Park and Youth in Action Community Park, make up 51% of the total.
Tom Baldwin Memorial Arboretum
Park or garden
1.0 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Grimshaw
Directionsto a point inside
Youth in Action Community Park
Park or garden
1.4 ha
Centralin the middle of Grimshaw
Directionsto a point inside
West Side Community Park
Park or garden
0.4 ha
Centralin the middle of Grimshaw
Directionsto a point inside
Source: OpenStreetMap parks, gardens, commons and woods with a name, in the town or within 400 m, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Sizes are the mapped outline’s.
Close to home
7 in 10 people in Grimshaw live near a park
Residents of each 2021 dissemination area, at a point inside it, within 400 m (about a 5-minute walk) of a park or playing field mapped on OpenStreetMap.
Within 400 m (73%)Further (27%)
Grimshaw73%
Towns in Alberta100%
Typical Canadian town83%
Around 800 residents are further than 400 m from a park. In the typical Canadian town the share is 83%, higher than here.
Protected areas
Grimshaw has 1 protected area within 10 km
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Grimshaw0%
Within 10 km0.5%
Towns in Alberta0.4%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
The area is public.
Peace River Wildland Provincial ParkProvincial park · 24,493 ha · 9.1 km from the edge of town
Source: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) 2.9.0, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
National & provincial parks
9.1 km to Peace River Wildland Provincial Park
National parks (Parks Canada) and provincial or territorial parks by direction and distance from the town’s edge: every one within 10 km, and the nearest of each within 100 km.
National parkProvincial park
Provincial park
Peace River Wildland Provincial Park
9.1 km south-east245 km²since 2001
Canada’s national parks are all more than 100 km from Grimshaw, so the parks here are provincial.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
1 km of paths in and around Grimshaw
OpenStreetMap footpaths, paths, bridleways and steps, and tracks open on foot, in the town and 1 km around it; woods as mapped (landuse=forest, natural=wood).
Footpaths
0.8 km
in and around the town (21.1 km²)
Woodland
7.1%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
GrimshawTowns in AlbertaTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GrimshawTowns in AlbertaTypical Canadian town
Woodland7.1%
0%50%100%
For woods, 54% of Canadian towns have more. 94% of Canadian towns have more footpath per km².
Source: OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Mapping varies by place: a dense figure can mean keen local mappers as much as many paths.
Walking routes
No named walking route passes Grimshaw on the map
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
The map shows no named route near the town. That says more about OpenStreetMap’s coverage than about the paths on the ground.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
Walking season in Grimshaw: May and July to September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Peace River (11 km), and daylight at the town’s latitude. Good months: 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15–30 °C, little rain.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 7.5 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 17.6 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 6.9 |
| High (°C) | -10 | -6 | -1 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 16 | 8 | -3 | -8 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 23 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 40 | 68 | 62 | 43 | 40 | 21 | 20 | 20 |
Winter brings about 128 cm of snow. The warmest days come in July (23 °C highs), the coldest in January (-10 °C). Most rain and snow falls in June, 68 mm; February sees 13 mm. The climate in Grimshaw →
Things to do
5 things to do outdoors near Grimshaw
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The most common are playgrounds: 3 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 3
Plus 3 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Northern Timbers RV Park & Campgroundin town
DirectionsPlus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Grimshaw
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. Grimshaw has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–27 km out.
Peace No. 135Peace RiverNorthern Sunrise CountyGrimshaw
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimshaw | 0.5% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peace No. 135 9.5 km | 8% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Peace River 21 km | 8.4% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Sunrise County 27 km | 0.9% | 8 | 0 | 17 |
For protected land, Peace No. 135 and Peace River have twice as much or more.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- Protected land. The share is of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s outline, from CPCAD’s mapped areas; marine areas count, so a coastal town can score high on water.
- National and provincial parks. National parks are Parks Canada’s; provincial parks are the province’s or territory’s, Québec’s parcs nationaux among them.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
Questions about the outdoors in Grimshaw
What is the nearest national park to Grimshaw?
The nearest national park is more than 100 km from Grimshaw.
How much land around Grimshaw is protected?
Yes: 0.5% of the land within 10 km is protected.
What is the largest protected area near Grimshaw?
Peace River Wildland Provincial Park: 24,493 ha, a provincial park.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Grimshaw?
May and July to September, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
Is there a provincial park near Grimshaw?
Peace River Wildland Provincial Park, 9.1 km from the edge of town.
Sources
Where Grimshaw’s outdoors figures come from
Protected areas: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) 2.9.0, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2026: every area within 10 km and the nearest national and provincial parks, measured outline to outline.
Walking routes and beaches: OpenStreetMap, November 2026: named hiking, foot and walking route relations within 2 km and beaches within 5 km.
Towns: Statistics Canada 2021 Census boundaries and populations; the comparison is the Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, not city hubs or reserves.
When to go: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, from the nearest station that publishes them.
Green space, paths, woods, things to do: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik’s Canada extract), November 2026: parks, gardens, playing fields, woods, footpaths, the coastline and things to do in and around each town.
Residents: Statistics Canada 2021 Census dissemination areas (population, boundaries), each at a point inside it.
Walking routes and beaches © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Not on this page: trailheads and trail grades, and beach water quality. No open Canadian dataset gives these for every town yet.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).