First pick
Strip Park
Park or garden · 230 m outside town
8.4 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
19 km westfrom the centre
Strip Park path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Hero122. Original uploader was Hero122 at en.wikipedia · CC BY 3.03.2%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Warner County No. 5 · parks, protected land & trails
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park begins where Warner County No. 5 ends
The closest of Canada’s national parks is Waterton Lakes National Park, at 71 km. Within 10 km are 4 protected areas. Of the country within 10 km, 3.2% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%.
Protected land
3.2%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
4
within 10 km, 2 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
71 km
Waterton Lakes National Park
Nearest provincial park
At the edge
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
Beaches
1
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Each figure for Warner County No. 5, 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.
Protected within 10 km3.2%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town4.7%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas2Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches1Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Warner County No. 5 comes 18th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (4,456 to 4,609 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
Warner County No. 53.2%
Towns its size2.4%
Towns in Alberta0.4%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Warner County No. 52
Towns its size4
Towns in Alberta2
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Warner County No. 50
Towns its size0
Towns in Alberta0
Typical Canadian town0
Among its peers, Warner County No. 5’s strong point is protected land nearby, where 17 of 39 top it. On public protected areas it is behind: 24 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona BC | 49% | 64% | 34 | 11 | 8 |
| 2 | Shelburne NS | 27% | 28% | 194 | 0 | 80 |
| 3 | Sparwood BC | 23% | 3.4% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Gaetz Brook NS | 15% | 4.2% | 55 | 2 | 19 |
| 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 | Melville SK | 5.2% | 1% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu QC | 4.3% | 0% | 41 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | Eastmount ON | 4.3% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Wainwright No. 61 AB | 3.7% | 3.1% | 41 | 0 | 5 |
| 17 | Crossroads ON | 3.5% | 0% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Warner County No. 5 AB | 3.2% | 4.7% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley BC | 2.8% | 3.6% | 42 | 3 | 2 |
| 20 | Country Hills ON | 2.6% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Red Hill ON | 2.1% | 0% | 17 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | Caraquet NB | 1.8% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 23 | Fairfield Park MB | 1.7% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Oxford AB | 1.7% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Highway Valley ON | 1.6% | 1.7% | 18 | 5 | 6 |
| 26 | Minnetonka MB | 1.6% | 1.7% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Felker ON | 1.5% | 0% | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | Centennial MB | 1.5% | 0% | 18 | 4 | 0 |
| 29 | Rockwood MB | 1.5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Carlisle AB | 1.5% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Casselman ON | 1.4% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Albion ON | 1.4% | 11% | 14 | 5 | 1 |
| 33 | Parkridge SK | 1.1% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Vulcan County AB | 0.3% | 0.4% | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Montgomery AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 | Blue Quill AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Vanderhoof BC | 0.2% | 3.8% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 | Saint-Anselme QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Howick ON | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Raymond AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
The green map of Warner County No. 5
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
2 named parks and woods to walk in near Warner County No. 5
Strip Park is the largest, at 8.4 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
Ray Knight Memorial Park
Park or garden · 390 m outside town
3.3 ha
18 km westfrom the centre
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
Most of Warner County No. 5 is more than a short walk from 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Warner County No. 50%
Towns in Alberta100%
Typical Canadian town83%
For about 4,500 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away. Most towns do better: the typical Canadian town is at 83%.
Protected areas
3.2% of the country within 10 km of Warner County No. 5 is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Warner County No. 54.7%
Within 10 km3.2%
Towns in Alberta0.4%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public ownership covers 2 of the 4. Biggest of the named areas: Twin River Heritage Rangeland Natural Area, 19,190 ha. 2 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
Twin River Heritage Rangeland Natural AreaNature reserve · 19,190 ha · reaches Warner County No. 5
Writing-on-Stone Provincial ParkProvincial park · 2,691 ha · reaches Warner County No. 5
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
Waterton Lakes National Park is 71 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.
National parkProvincial park
Provincial park
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
At the edge27 km²since 1957
National park
Waterton Lakes National Park
71 km west505 km²since 1895
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Warner County No. 5 has 9 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
9.1 km
in and around the town (4,565 km²)
Woodland
0%
of the town and 1 km around it
Footpaths · km per km²
Warner County No. 5Towns in AlbertaTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Warner County No. 5Towns in AlbertaTypical Canadian town
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
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.
Walking routes
No mapped walking route near Warner County No. 5
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
The best months for walking in Warner County No. 5: May and July to September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Lethbridge (37 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) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 11 | 10 | 17 | 28 | 57 | 93 | 40 | 33 | 32 | 24 | 16 | 12 |
February is the driest month at 10 mm; June the wettest at 93 mm. Summer highs reach 26 °C in July; in January they stay near 0 °C. Some 108 cm of snow falls each winter. The climate in Warner County No. 5 →
Beaches
A beach within 5 km of Warner County No. 5
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.
Things to do
Warner County No. 5 has 3 viewpoints within 2 km
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: 12 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Davis Coulee Viewpointin town
DirectionsPolice Coulee Viewpointin town
DirectionsPlus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Chin Coulee Provincial Recreation Areain town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 12
Plus 12 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 6
A - Group Campgroundin town
DirectionsB - Group Campgroundin town
DirectionsGold Springs Park Campgroundin town
DirectionsRidge Park Campgroundin town
DirectionsWriting-on-Stone Campgroundin town
DirectionsPerret Park0.2 km from town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Warner County No. 5
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
StirlingRaymondWarner County No. 5
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
None of its neighbours has twice the protected land around it that Warner County No. 5 has.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Private land. Areas held by land trusts or private owners stay unnamed here, though they count in the shares.
- Protected land. The 10 km band starts at the town’s outline, not its centre, so a large municipality reaches further than a small town.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- Walking routes. A route counts when 300 m or more of it lies within 2 km of the town. Coverage of trails on OpenStreetMap varies by region.
- 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 Warner County No. 5
When is the best time for walking in Warner County No. 5?
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 Warner County No. 5 near a national park?
Waterton Lakes National Park is closest, at 71 km.
Is there a beach near Warner County No. 5?
One beach is mapped within 5 km, though without a name.
How much land around Warner County No. 5 is protected?
Protected areas cover 3.2% of the land within 10 km.
Is there a provincial park near Warner County No. 5?
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park touches the town.
Which is the biggest protected area near Warner County No. 5?
It is Twin River Heritage Rangeland Natural Area, a nature reserve covering 19,190 ha.
Sources
Where Warner County No. 5’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).