Photo: Amqui · CC BY-SA 4.0Dillberry Lake Provincial Park begins where Wainwright No. 61 ends
5 beaches are mapped within 5 km, none with a name. For a national park, Elk Island National Park is 99 km away. Of the country within 10 km, 3.7% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%.
What sets Wainwright No. 61 apart outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Above all, Wainwright No. 61 offers a provincial park at its edge, with its beaches close behind.
Each figure for Wainwright No. 61, 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. Outdoors isn’t graded in Canada. The page compares each figure with other towns and leaves it there.
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Wainwright No. 61 comes 17th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (4,486 to 4,657 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Among its peers, Wainwright No. 61’s strong point is public protected areas, where 14 of 39 top it.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper AB | 100% | 100% | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona BC | 49% | 64% | 34 | 11 | 8 |
| 3 | Shelburne NS | 27% | 28% | 194 | 0 | 80 |
| 4 | Sparwood BC | 23% | 3.4% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Douglas BC | 13% | 3.2% | 82 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Queenswood - Chatelaine ON | 12% | 0% | 40 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola BC | 11% | 8.3% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Berthierville QC | 9.1% | 0% | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Gurnett ON | 7.3% | 0% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Bowen Island BC | 7.2% | 17% | 60 | 0 | 173 |
| 11 | Neuville QC | 7.1% | 1.3% | 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Horning ON | 6.4% | 20% | 17 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | Saint-Antonin QC | 6.1% | 0.5% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Melville SK | 5.2% | 1% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu QC | 4.3% | 0% | 41 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | Eastmount ON | 4.3% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 | Wainwright No. 61 AB | 3.7% | 3.1% | 41 | 0 | 5 |
| 18 | Crossroads ON | 3.5% | 0% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Britannia Youngstown AB | 3.3% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Warner County No. 5 AB | 3.2% | 4.7% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Country Hills ON | 2.6% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | Battleford SK | 2.2% | 1.1% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Red Hill ON | 2.1% | 0% | 17 | 3 | 5 |
| 24 | Caraquet NB | 1.8% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 25 | Fairfield Park MB | 1.7% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Felker ON | 1.5% | 0% | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | Rockwood MB | 1.5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Carlisle AB | 1.5% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Casselman ON | 1.4% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Albion ON | 1.4% | 11% | 14 | 5 | 1 |
| 31 | Riverview MB | 1.4% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | Parkridge SK | 1.1% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | Iroquois Falls ON | 0.8% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Britannia ON | 0.7% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Blue Quill AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Vanderhoof BC | 0.2% | 3.8% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 37 | Saint-Anselme QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Howick ON | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Raymond AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Parks, woods and paths around Wainwright No. 61
The town’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
4 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Wainwright No. 61
Largest first: Salt Lake Park leads with 5.5 ha. Numbers match the map.
Salt Lake Park and Community Soccer Park together hold 69% of it.
Community Soccer Park
Tory Heights Park
Off-Leash Dog "Bark" Park
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.
In Wainwright No. 61, parks are rarely a short walk away
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.
The typical Canadian town reaches 83%. For about 4,600 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away.
3.7% of the land around Wainwright No. 61 is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Public bodies own 6 of the 41; land trusts and private owners hold the others. Ribstone Creek Heritage Rangeland Natural Area leads for size with 8,326 ha. 34 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
2 areas recorded only by their type (provincial layers such as wildlife habitat areas) are counted, not listed.
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.
Elk Island National Park is 99 km away
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.
Dillberry Lake Provincial Park
Elk Island National Park
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Wainwright No. 61 has 15 km of footpaths in and around it
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 · km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
It is less wooded than 75% of Canadian towns. Paths are thinner on the ground than in 99% of Canadian towns.
Source: OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Mapping varies by place: a dense figure can mean keen local mappers as much as many paths.
No named walking route passes Wainwright No. 61 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.
The best months for walking in Wainwright No. 61: May, August and September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Fabyan, 21 km away). Good months: long days, highs of 15–30 °C, light rain.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | -8 | -6 | 0 | 10 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 9 | -1 | -7 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 20 | 12 | 16 | 31 | 47 | 79 | 77 | 56 | 35 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
June is the wettest month (79 mm) and February the driest (12 mm). Highs peak near 24 °C in July and fall to -8 °C in January. Snow totals about 99 cm a year. The climate in Wainwright No. 61 →
5 beaches within 5 km of Wainwright No. 61, none named
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Canada publishes no open register of beach water tests; the local public health unit posts swimming advisories.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Near Wainwright No. 61: one viewpoint on the map
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: 7 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Nature reserves 1
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 7
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Campsites 3
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next to Wainwright No. 61
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. Distances here run 4–68 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Wainwright No. 61.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wainwright No. 61 | 3.7% | 41 | 0 | 5 |
| Wainwright 4.2 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Provost No. 52 56 km | 1.5% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Vermilion 62 km | 1.5% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Provost 64 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Flagstaff County 68 km | 0.4% | 47 | 0 | 0 |
Next door, protected shares stay within twice Wainwright No. 61’s.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Private land. Private conservation land is in the totals, not the lists. Many such areas are easements on working farms or woodlots.
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- Beaches. A beach counts when its centre point lies within 5 km of the town’s outline. Names come from the map.
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
Questions about the outdoors in Wainwright No. 61
What is the nearest national park to Wainwright No. 61?
Elk Island National Park is closest, at 99 km.
Which is the biggest protected area near Wainwright No. 61?
Ribstone Creek Heritage Rangeland Natural Area, a nature reserve of 8,326 ha.
When should you visit Wainwright No. 61 for the outdoors?
On the normals, May, August and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
How far is the nearest provincial park from Wainwright No. 61?
Dillberry Lake Provincial Park, which reaches the edge of town.
Is there a beach near Wainwright No. 61?
There are beaches within 5 km, none of them named.
Is there protected land near Wainwright No. 61?
Within 10 km, 3.7% of the land lies in protected areas.
Where Wainwright No. 61’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).