First pick
Burnside Park
Park or garden
9.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Ste. Rose
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jasonbook99 · CC BY-SA 4.05%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Ste. Rose · parks, protected land & trails
A national park 4.2 km from Ste. Rose: Riding Mountain National Park
Of the country within 10 km, 5% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. For a swim, Methley Beach is the nearest of 2 beaches within 5 km. Within 10 km are 17 protected areas.
Protected land
5%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
17
within 10 km, 2 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
4.2 km
Riding Mountain National Park
Nearest provincial park
98 km
Duck Mountain Provincial Park
Beaches
2
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
How Ste. Rose compares with other 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 km5%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 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
Beaches2Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Ste. Rose has the 10th most protected land nearby of 40 towns its size
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (1,651 to 2,587 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
Ste. Rose5%
Towns its size1.6%
Towns in Manitoba1.1%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Ste. Rose2
Towns its size3
Towns in Manitoba12
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Ste. Rose0
Towns its size0
Towns in Manitoba0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Ste. Rose does best for protected land nearby: 9 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for public protected areas, where 23 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anmore BC | 22% | 47% | 16 | 5 | 98 |
| 2 | Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska QC | 19% | 0% | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Gracefield QC | 19% | 19% | 34 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | East Preston NS | 16% | 6.3% | 20 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Clearwater BC | 7.7% | 4.1% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Roberval QC | 6.1% | 1.2% | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague QC | 5.8% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | North Frontenac ON | 5.7% | 5.2% | 13 | 6 | 4 |
| 9 | Cap-Chat QC | 5.3% | 0.4% | 13 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Ste. Rose MB | 5% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards ON | 4.4% | 1.5% | 9 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Saint-Polycarpe QC | 4.2% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Macassa ON | 4.1% | 0% | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Saint-Damien QC | 4% | 3.2% | 22 | 1 | 9 |
| 15 | Unity SK | 3.4% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Sherwood ON | 3.4% | 0% | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | McNab SK | 2.6% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Mandeville QC | 2.5% | 1.8% | 19 | 4 | 7 |
| 19 | Esterhazy SK | 1.8% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | City Commercial Core ON | 1.8% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Caswell Hill SK | 1.4% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 3 |
| 22 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac QC | 1.3% | 7.8% | 15 | 0 | 14 |
| 23 | Pembina MB | 1.1% | 1.8% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Burrows-Keewatin MB | 1% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Elmwood AB | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | Hatley QC | 0.7% | 0% | 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 27 | Munroe West MB | 0.4% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Brooke-Alvinston ON | 0.3% | 0.2% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Rosedale AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | Minchau AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 31 | Lunenburg NS | 0.1% | 0% | 19 | 0 | 5 |
| 32 | Salisbury NB | 0.1% | 2.1% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Dufferin MB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Ekota AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 35 | Satoo AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | Magrath AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Nanton AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Rimbey AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Sexsmith AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Ste. Rose
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 Ste. Rose
Largest first: Burnside Park leads with 9.2 ha. Numbers match the map.
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
About 6 in 10 of Ste. Rose’s residents are 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 (63%)Further (37%)
Ste. Rose63%
Towns in Manitoba97%
Typical Canadian town83%
In the typical Canadian town the share is 83%, higher than here. That leaves about 600 people more than a short walk away.
Protected areas
5% of the country within 10 km of Ste. Rose 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 Ste. Rose0%
Within 10 km5%
Towns in Manitoba1.1%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Governments hold 2 of the 17, and private owners the rest. At 296,770 ha, Riding Mountain National Park is the largest. Another 15 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
Alonsa Wildlife Management AreaWildlife area · 3,866 ha · reaches Ste. Rose
Riding Mountain National ParkNational park · 296,770 ha · 4.2 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
Big parks near Ste. Rose
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
National park
Riding Mountain National Park
4.2 km south-west2,968 km²since 1929
Provincial park
Duck Mountain Provincial Park
98 km north-west478 km²since 1961
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
72 km of paths in and around Ste. Rose
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
72 km
in and around the town (740.6 km²)
Woodland
29%
about 214.5 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Ste. RoseTowns in ManitobaTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Ste. RoseTowns in ManitobaTypical Canadian town
Woodland29%
0%50%100%
Woods cover more of it than in 73% of Canadian towns. It has fewer paths per km² than 86% 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
OpenStreetMap shows no walking route near Ste. Rose
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
OpenStreetMap has no named walking route within 2 km of the town. Trails may exist without being mapped as routes.
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 Ste. Rose: May, August and September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Dauphin, 38 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) | -11 | -8 | -1 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 19 | 10 | 0 | -8 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 17 | 12 | 25 | 26 | 51 | 87 | 71 | 55 | 53 | 31 | 18 | 17 |
Most rain and snow falls in June, 87 mm; February sees 12 mm. Daytime highs run from -11 °C in January up to 25 °C in July. The climate in Ste. Rose →
Beaches
For a swim near Ste. Rose: Methley Beach, 2.4 km off
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Methley Beach2.4 km from town
DirectionsOne more beach goes unnamed. No national or provincial register of beach water quality is published as open data, so check the local health unit before swimming.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
3 things to do outdoors near Ste. Rose
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
Every named place, with directions
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Splash Parkin town
DirectionsCampsites 1
Parc Molgat Park Campgroundin town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Ste. Rose
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 15–45 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Ste. Rose.
LakeshoreEbb and Flow 52AlonsaDauphinDauphinSte. Rose
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ste. Rose | 5% | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| Lakeshore 15 km | 11% | 17 | 0 | 3 |
| Ebb and Flow 52 35 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alonsa 36 km | 1.2% | 18 | 0 | 2 |
| Dauphin 38 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dauphin 45 km | 18% | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Around Lakeshore and Dauphin the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about the outdoors in Ste. Rose
How far is the nearest provincial park from Ste. Rose?
Duck Mountain Provincial Park, 98 km away.
Which is the biggest protected area near Ste. Rose?
Riding Mountain National Park, a national park of 296,770 ha.
When is the best time for walking in Ste. Rose?
On the normals, May, August and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
What is the nearest beach to Ste. Rose?
Methley Beach, 2.4 km from town, is the nearest mapped beach.
Is there protected land near Ste. Rose?
Within 10 km, 5% of the land lies in protected areas.
What is the nearest national park to Ste. Rose?
Riding Mountain National Park, 4.2 km from the edge of town.
Sources
Where Ste. Rose’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).