First pick
Horse Barn Valley Interpretive Forest
Park or garden
209 ha10.3 km of path
2 h 15 minto walk all 10.3 km of path
4.5 km westfrom the centre
Tora Bora (Round the Mountain)The RidgeSummer Trail+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.01.5%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Kimberley · parks, protected land & trails
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, 16 km away, is the closest provincial park to Kimberley
8 protected areas lie within 10 km. For a national park, Kootenay National Park is 94 km away. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 1.5% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town.
Protected land
1.5%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
8
within 10 km, 1 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
94 km
Kootenay National Park
Nearest provincial park
16 km
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park
Against other towns
Each figure for Kimberley, 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. Canada’s grades don’t include the outdoors, so this page compares the figures rather than grading them.
Protected within 10 km1.5%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town1.2%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
Kimberley has the 16th least protected land nearby of 40 towns its size
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (8,864 to 9,224 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
Kimberley1.5%
Towns its size2.6%
Towns in British Columbia6.7%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Kimberley1
Towns its size4
Towns in British Columbia14
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Kimberley0
Towns its size0
Towns in British Columbia1
Typical Canadian town0
For public protected areas, Kimberley lags towns its size: 31 of 39 are ahead.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chelsea QC | 27% | 65% | 55 | 6 | 7 |
| 2 | Crescent Heights BC | 27% | 13% | 132 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Queenswood Heights ON | 14% | 0% | 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Fall River NS | 11% | 2.9% | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Blossom Park - Timbermill ON | 9.6% | 12% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Beaver Bank NS | 8.2% | 3.8% | 31 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Saint-Robert QC | 7.8% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | South Slope BC | 5.8% | 0% | 39 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | Corktown ON | 5.6% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Grande Cache AB | 5.5% | 2.2% | 26 | 0 | 50 |
| 11 | H-Section (bramalea) ON | 5.5% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Clayton Heights BC | 5.4% | 2.3% | 131 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste QC | 5.3% | 0% | 17 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Saint-Apollinaire QC | 5.1% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Rosewood Park BC | 4.5% | 0% | 130 | 5 | 0 |
| 16 | Sundance AB | 3.3% | 34% | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| 17 | North Central SK | 3.2% | 0% | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | Fish Creek Park AB | 3.2% | 53% | 4 | 0 | 20 |
| 19 | Riverbend AB | 3.1% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 20 | Fletchers Meadow South ON | 2.7% | 11% | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Old East York ON | 2.4% | 4.6% | 13 | 3 | 15 |
| 22 | Stony Mountain MB | 2.3% | 2.3% | 12 | 4 | 1 |
| 23 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval QC | 1.7% | 0% | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | Portugal Cove-St. Philip's NL | 1.5% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 35 |
| 25 | Kimberley BC | 1.5% | 1.2% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Camrose County AB | 1.4% | 1.3% | 148 | 0 | 3 |
| 27 | Churchville ON | 1.2% | 2% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Hampton Village SK | 1.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 29 | Booth MB | 0.9% | 1% | 20 | 1 | 37 |
| 30 | Barbertown ON | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Silver Springs AB | 0.8% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 32 | Kings County, Subdivision C NS | 0.6% | 0% | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | Munroe East MB | 0.5% | 0% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Hawkwood AB | 0.5% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 35 | La Salle MB | 0.4% | 0% | 25 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Coaticook QC | 0.3% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | Kingsway South ON | 0.3% | 0% | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 38 | Marlborough AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 | Mount Pleasant AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 40 | DT Cooksville ON | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 1 |
The map
Kimberley on the map: green space, protected land and paths
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
6 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Kimberley
Horse Barn Valley Interpretive Forest is the largest, at 209 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
6 named parks and woods, 217 ha in all
Parks & gardens 217 ha
Add Horse Barn Valley Interpretive Forest to Coronation Park and you have 98% of it.
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
4 in 10 people in Kimberley 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 (38%)Further (62%)
Kimberley38%
Towns in British Columbia72%
Typical Canadian town83%
A median Canadian town manages 83%. That leaves about 5,600 people more than a short walk away.
Protected areas
1.5% of the land around Kimberley 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 Kimberley1.2%
Within 10 km1.5%
Towns in British Columbia6.7%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Governments hold 1 of the 8, and private owners the rest. 7 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
1 area recorded only by its type (a provincial layer such as wildlife habitat areas) is 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.
National & provincial parks
The nearest big park: Kootenay National Park, 94 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
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park
16 km north-west2,020 km²since 1974
National park
Kootenay National Park
94 km north1,406 km²since 1920
Nearer still is Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, a provincial park 16 km away.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Kimberley has 210 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
210 km
in and around the town (107.6 km²)
Woodland
70%
about 75.3 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
KimberleyTowns in British ColumbiaTypical Canadian town
Footpaths2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
KimberleyTowns in British ColumbiaTypical Canadian town
Woodland70%
0%50%100%
It has more footpath per km² than 55% of Canadian towns. For woods, it beats 91% 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 named walking route passes Kimberley 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
Get out in Kimberley in May to September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Cranbrook, 16 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) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | -2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 3 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 27 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 42 | 62 | 35 | 24 | 30 | 26 | 35 | 35 |
About 133 cm of snow falls in a year. December brings highs of -3 °C, July highs of 27 °C. For dry weather, February is best (20 mm); June gets 62 mm. The climate in Kimberley →
Things to do
Viewpoints and waterfalls near Kimberley: 4 and 1
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
For a climb, Sullivan Hill rises to 1,893 m. The most common are playgrounds: 8 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 4
North Star Hill1,787 m · 0.1 km from town
DirectionsSullivan Hill1,893 m · 0.5 km from town
DirectionsLone Pine Hill (2nd Butte)1,169 m · 1.5 km from town
DirectionsButte1,060 m · 1.7 km from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 1
Marysville Fallsin town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 8
Lindsay Park Playgroundin town
DirectionsPurple Playgroundin town
DirectionsTriangle Parkin town
DirectionsPlus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Kimberley Riverside 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 Kimberley
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. The nearest places to Kimberley with figures are 19–27 km away.
Electoral Area E, East KootenayCranbrookElectoral Area C, East KootenayKimberley
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberley | 1.5% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Electoral Area E, East Kootenay 19 km | 13% | 37 | 0 | 2 |
| Cranbrook 24 km | 2.4% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Electoral Area C, East Kootenay 27 km | 2.3% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
Around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected land. Measured on CPCAD’s outlines: the part of a 10 km band around the town that lies in a protected or conserved area, water included.
- Walking routes. The list is OpenStreetMap’s, so a missing trail may just be unmapped. The Trans Canada Trail appears where OSM maps it.
- National and provincial parks. A park at 0 km touches or overlaps the town’s outline; directions point from the town’s centre.
- Private land. Land owned by individuals, companies or conservation groups counts toward the figures but is never named: a person’s land isn’t a place to visit.
Questions about the outdoors in Kimberley
How much land around Kimberley is protected?
Within 10 km, 1.5% of the land lies in protected areas.
Is there a provincial park near Kimberley?
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, 16 km from the edge of town.
What is the nearest national park to Kimberley?
Kootenay National Park is closest, at 94 km.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Kimberley?
May to September, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
Sources
The sources behind Kimberley’s outdoors figures
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).