First pick
Irving Arboretum
Park or garden
28 ha6.3 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.3 km of path
1.4 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.027%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Bouctouche · parks, protected land & trails
27% of the land within 10 km of Bouctouche is protected
For a national park, Kouchibouguac National Park is 25 km away. Swimmers have 3 beaches within 5 km, Dune de Buctouche the nearest. A provincial park, Amherst Shore Provincial Park, lies 83 km away.
Protected land
27%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
3
within 10 km, 1 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
25 km
Kouchibouguac National Park
Nearest provincial park
83 km
Amherst Shore Provincial Park
Beaches
3
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Bouctouche 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
Protected within 10 km27%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town1.6%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
Beaches3Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Bouctouche comes 2nd of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (2,639 to 2,718 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
Bouctouche27%
Towns its size1.6%
Towns in New Brunswick6%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Bouctouche1
Towns its size2
Towns in New Brunswick7
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Bouctouche0
Towns its size0
Towns in New Brunswick0
Typical Canadian town0
For protected land nearby, Bouctouche sits near the top of its size group: 1 of 39 has more. It trails them for public protected areas, where 24 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Ronge SK | 49% | 0.2% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Bouctouche NB | 27% | 1.6% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Electoral Area A, Central Kootenay BC | 26% | 38% | 20 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | Meadow Lake No. 588 SK | 13% | 15% | 25 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Tumbler Ridge BC | 12% | 5.1% | 5 | 0 | 51 |
| 6 | Eastman QC | 11% | 7.4% | 49 | 5 | 7 |
| 7 | Swan Valley West MB | 11% | 1% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast BC | 10% | 15% | 73 | 0 | 231 |
| 9 | Saint George NB | 7.2% | 14% | 28 | 0 | 23 |
| 10 | Russell MB | 4.9% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | East River, Part 1 PE | 4.3% | 9.1% | 38 | 14 | 20 |
| 12 | Emerson-Franklin MB | 3.7% | 0.1% | 123 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Kinburn ON | 3.1% | 0% | 31 | 0 | 6 |
| 14 | Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton QC | 2.8% | 5.3% | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Trinity ON | 2.6% | 2.8% | 27 | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | Saint-Mathieu QC | 2.4% | 0% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | La Présentation QC | 1.7% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Adelaide/Churchill SK | 1.7% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Eastdale ON | 1.6% | 0% | 15 | 3 | 8 |
| 20 | Westmeria ON | 1.6% | 0% | 18 | 2 | 5 |
| 21 | Meadowlark Park AB | 1.6% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | Westview SK | 1.4% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 | North Point Douglas MB | 1.2% | 0% | 17 | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | Grand Manan NB | 0.8% | 6.1% | 14 | 1 | 31 |
| 25 | Hanna AB | 0.8% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Waterville QC | 0.7% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | Saint-Alexandre QC | 0.6% | 0.6% | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | Grey MB | 0.6% | 0.7% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Saint-Chrysostome QC | 0.4% | 0.3% | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 30 | Sundre AB | 0.4% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Macamic QC | 0.3% | 0% | 11 | 2 | 3 |
| 32 | Cy Becker AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Spaniard's Bay NL | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 34 | Saint-Bernard QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Saint-Martin QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Plessisville QC | 0% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | Saint-Léonard-d'Aston QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Delton AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | Gold Bar AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 40 | Highlands AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Bouctouche
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the town; tap a number for its park or wood.
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 Bouctouche
Largest first: Irving Arboretum leads with 28 ha. Numbers match the map.
Terrains de Baseball de Bouctouche
Park or garden
8.9 ha
0.7 km northfrom 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
4 in 10 people in Bouctouche 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 (35%)Further (65%)
Bouctouche35%
Towns in New Brunswick8.3%
Typical Canadian town83%
About 1,700 residents live further than 400 m from one. The typical Canadian town reaches 83%.
Protected areas
The 3 protected areas near Bouctouche
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Bouctouche1.6%
Within 10 km27%
Towns in New Brunswick6%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Of the 3, 1 are public land; the others are privately held. The figures include 2 private conservation areas, left unnamed.
Scallop Buffer Zone (SFA 22)Nature reserve · 285,278 ha · reaches Bouctouche
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
Kouchibouguac National Park is 25 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
National park
Kouchibouguac National Park
25 km north-west239 km²since 1969
Provincial park
Amherst Shore Provincial Park
83 km south-east2.6 km²since 2000
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Paths to walk: 16 km in and around Bouctouche
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
16 km
in and around the town (46.1 km²)
Woodland
40%
about 18.6 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
BouctoucheTowns in New BrunswickTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BouctoucheTowns in New BrunswickTypical Canadian town
Woodland40%
0%50%100%
For path density, 70% of Canadian towns do better. More of it is wooded than in 79% 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 Bouctouche
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
There is no mapped walking route within 2 km of the town; a local trail club’s maps may show more.
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 Bouctouche: May to August
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Bouctouche, 5.7 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | -3 | -2 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 0 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 72 | 59 | 79 | 69 | 93 | 82 | 89 | 74 | 101 | 106 | 92 | 86 |
The yearly snowfall is near 310 cm. From -3 °C in January to 25 °C in July: that is the range of daytime highs. October is the wettest month (106 mm) and February the driest (59 mm). The climate in Bouctouche →
Beaches
For a swim near Bouctouche: Dune de Buctouche, 4.5 km off
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Dune de Buctouche4.5 km from town
DirectionsOpenStreetMap maps 52 km of coastline within 5 km. Add 2 unnamed beaches to the count. For water quality, look to the local health unit: no open beach-testing data covers Canada.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
2 viewpoints near Bouctouche
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
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
McIntosh Hill1.4 km from town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Bouctouche
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
WellingtonSaint MarySaint-AntoineCocagneRichibuctoBouctouche
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouctouche | 27% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Wellington 3.6 km | 32% | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Saint Mary 11 km | 3.7% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Antoine 12 km | 5.2% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Cocagne 14 km | 39% | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| Richibucto 18 km | 26% | 12 | 0 | 18 |
For protected land, no neighbour of Bouctouche doubles its share.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- Beaches. A beach counts when its centre point lies within 5 km of the town’s outline. Names come from the map.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- 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.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
Questions about the outdoors in Bouctouche
Are there protected areas near Bouctouche?
Within 10 km, 27% of the land lies in protected areas.
How far is Bouctouche from a national park?
It is Kouchibouguac National Park, 25 km off.
What is the biggest park or reserve near Bouctouche?
Scallop Buffer Zone (SFA 22), a nature reserve of 285,278 ha.
Is there a beach near Bouctouche?
The nearest is Dune de Buctouche, 4.5 km from town.
When is the best time for walking in Bouctouche?
May to August, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
How far is the nearest provincial park from Bouctouche?
It is Amherst Shore Provincial Park, 83 km away.
Sources
Where Bouctouche’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).