Photo: Words in the Wind · CC BY-SA 4.0A provincial park at Bifrost-Riverton’s edge: Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park
7 beaches are mapped within 5 km, none with a name. Protected areas cover 5% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. Within 100 km there is no national park.
Where Bifrost-Riverton stands out outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Bifrost-Riverton is strongest on a provincial park at its edge, with its beaches close behind.
Bifrost-Riverton beside other Canadian towns, figure by figure
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Bifrost-Riverton ranks 13th for protected land within 10 km
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (3,453 to 3,581 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
For protected land nearby, Bifrost-Riverton sits near the top of its size group: 12 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wellington NB | 32% | 2.4% | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 2 | Shuniah ON | 19% | 1.4% | 13 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary BC | 17% | 21% | 13 | 0 | 39 |
| 4 | Saint-Pascal QC | 17% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Lawrencetown NS | 8.5% | 11% | 14 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Bridgeview BC | 8.3% | 1.1% | 116 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Fessenden ON | 7.3% | 0% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Malartic QC | 6.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Guybourg QC | 6.4% | 0% | 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC | 6.2% | 7.6% | 18 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Edwards - Carlsbad Springs ON | 5.6% | 5.6% | 39 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Saint-Thomas QC | 5.1% | 0.5% | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Bifrost-Riverton MB | 5% | 0.7% | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 14 | Burkholme ON | 4.4% | 0% | 19 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Des Vallées QC | 3.9% | 0% | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Electoral Area L (Grasslands), Thompson-Nicola BC | 3.8% | 4.8% | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Hampton Heights ON | 3.7% | 0% | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | Horton ON | 2.1% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 19 | Buckland No. 491 SK | 2% | 2.2% | 24 | 0 | 8 |
| 20 | Victoria Park ON | 1.8% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Kingston NB | 1.7% | 0.8% | 31 | 3 | 52 |
| 22 | Thorncliff AB | 1.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | McMillan MB | 1.5% | 0% | 24 | 3 | 0 |
| 24 | Brevoort Park SK | 1.5% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 | Fairfield ON | 1.4% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Melancthon ON | 1.3% | 0% | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 27 | Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby QC | 1.2% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Buchanan MB | 1.2% | 0.1% | 11 | 1 | 37 |
| 29 | Niakwa Place MB | 0.8% | 4.3% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Downtown East Village AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Daly Grove AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 32 | Sakaw AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 33 | Richfield AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Saint-Isidore QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Saint-Gilles QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Morris MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Carman MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Beausejour MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 39 | Three Hills AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Delwood AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Parks, woods and paths around Bifrost-Riverton
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the town.
1 in 10 people in Bifrost-Riverton 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.
In the typical Canadian town the share is 83%, higher than here. For about 3,000 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away.
Within 10 km of Bifrost-Riverton, 5% is protected land
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 5 of the 7; land trusts and private owners hold the others. Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park covers 41,218 ha, the most of any named area. The figures include 2 private conservation areas, left unnamed.
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.
Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park starts at the edge of Bifrost-Riverton
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.
Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park
No national park lies within 100 km of Bifrost-Riverton; the provincial parks are the big protected land within reach.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
183 km of paths in and around Bifrost-Riverton
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
Paths are thinner on the ground than in 86% of Canadian towns. Woods cover less of it than in 89% 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 Bifrost-Riverton 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.
No walking route is mapped within 2 km of the town. Mapping of trails as routes varies a great deal across Canada.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
September is the best month for walking in Bifrost-Riverton
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Hodgson, 28 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | -12 | -9 | -1 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 9 | -1 | -9 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 35 | 22 | 35 | 32 | 67 | 85 | 76 | 69 | 56 | 49 | 37 | 39 |
Most rain and snow falls in June, 85 mm; February sees 22 mm. Highs peak near 25 °C in July and fall to -12 °C in January. Snow totals about 182 cm a year. The climate in Bifrost-Riverton →
7 unnamed beaches near Bifrost-Riverton
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Beach water tests aren’t published as open data across Canada, so swimming advisories come from the local health unit.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
7 things to do outdoors near Bifrost-Riverton
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
Top of the list: playgrounds, 4 of them.
Every named place, with directions
Nature reserves 2
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next to Bifrost-Riverton
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 10–43 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Bifrost-Riverton.
For protected land, Fisher has twice as much or more.
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.
- 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.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- Private land. Areas held by land trusts or private owners stay unnamed here, though they count in the shares.
Questions about the outdoors in Bifrost-Riverton
What is the nearest provincial park to Bifrost-Riverton?
Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park touches the town.
How much land around Bifrost-Riverton is protected?
Within 10 km, 5% of the land lies in protected areas.
Where can you swim near Bifrost-Riverton?
There are beaches within 5 km, none of them named.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Bifrost-Riverton?
On the normals, September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
What is the nearest national park to Bifrost-Riverton?
None within 100 km of Bifrost-Riverton.
Which is the biggest protected area near Bifrost-Riverton?
It is Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, a provincial park covering 41,218 ha.
The sources behind Bifrost-Riverton’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).