First pick
Camping et Aquaparc de Tracadie
Park or garden
6.0 ha
3.8 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.013%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Tracadie · parks, protected land & trails
Tracadie has more protected land around it than 9 in 10 Canadian towns
Swimmers have 27 beaches within 5 km, Plage de Tabusintac the nearest. Within 10 km are 54 protected areas. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Kouchibouguac National Park, at 43 km.
Protected land
13%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
54
within 10 km, 23 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
43 km
Kouchibouguac National Park
Beaches
27
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Character
What sets Tracadie apart outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Protected land all round13% of the land within 10 km, more than 91% of Canadian townsBeaches27 beaches within 5 kmMany protected areas23 public areas within 10 km
Tracadie is strongest on protected land around it, with its beaches close behind.
Against other towns
Each figure for Tracadie, 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 km13%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town9%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas23Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches27Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Tracadie comes 4th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (16,007 to 16,904 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
Tracadie13%
Towns its size2.6%
Towns in New Brunswick6%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Tracadie23
Towns its size9
Towns in New Brunswick7
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Tracadie0
Towns its size0
Towns in New Brunswick0
Typical Canadian town0
Among its peers, Tracadie’s strong point is protected land nearby, where 3 of 39 top it.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunnyside BC | 19% | 1.9% | 127 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Mercier QC | 15% | 0% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Fairview NS | 14% | 0% | 16 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Tracadie NB | 13% | 9% | 54 | 0 | 27 |
| 5 | Greektown BC | 12% | 0% | 13 | 2 | 73 |
| 6 | Carlington ON | 12% | 2.5% | 33 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC | 8.4% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Surrey Centre BC | 8.2% | 1.3% | 190 | 6 | 0 |
| 9 | Old Hunt Club ON | 7.3% | 7% | 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Elder Mills ON | 7.3% | 8% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Sturgeon Falls ON | 7.2% | 6.1% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Chutes-Montmorency QC | 6.4% | 0.1% | 25 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Parc-Lafontaine QC | 5.4% | 0% | 21 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Davie Village BC | 5.2% | 0% | 11 | 3 | 71 |
| 15 | Stayner ON | 5% | 3.6% | 46 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | Saint-Sauveur QC | 4.9% | 0% | 19 | 1 | 4 |
| 17 | Préfontaine QC | 4.5% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 3 |
| 18 | A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) ON | 4.2% | 0% | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Étienne Desmarteaux QC | 3.1% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Oakridge ON | 2.6% | 4.4% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Mount Pleasant East ON | 2.5% | 0% | 13 | 3 | 2 |
| 22 | Saint-Édouard QC | 2.3% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | Leaside-Bennington ON | 2.2% | 1% | 11 | 6 | 8 |
| 24 | Scarborough Village ON | 2.2% | 7% | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 | Cliffcrest ON | 2.1% | 2.4% | 16 | 0 | 9 |
| 26 | Saint-Émile QC | 2% | 0% | 25 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | North Toronto ON | 1.9% | 0% | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | Bathurst Manor ON | 1.7% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Hillcrest Village ON | 1.6% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Glen Cairn ON | 1.6% | 7% | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | Laurentian West ON | 1.5% | 5.8% | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Almonte ON | 1.4% | 0.7% | 26 | 0 | 8 |
| 33 | Smithville ON | 1.3% | 0% | 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Leduc County AB | 1.2% | 0.7% | 85 | 2 | 4 |
| 35 | Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides QC | 1.1% | 4.1% | 13 | 0 | 4 |
| 36 | Evergreen SK | 0.7% | 8.9% | 12 | 1 | 3 |
| 37 | Summerside AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 38 | Saint-Charles-Borromée QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Winkler MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 40 | Strathmore AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Tracadie
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
3 named parks and woods to walk in near Tracadie
The biggest is Camping et Aquaparc de Tracadie, 6.0 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
Parc Allen Losier
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.3 km of path
3.2 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des vétérans
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.3 km of path
3.2 km north-eastfrom 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
1 in 10 people in Tracadie 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 (10%)Further (90%)
Tracadie10%
Towns in New Brunswick8.3%
Typical Canadian town83%
Most towns do better: the typical Canadian town is at 83%. That leaves about 14,700 people more than a short walk away.
Protected areas
The 54 protected areas near Tracadie
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Tracadie9%
Within 10 km13%
Towns in New Brunswick6%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Governments hold 23 of the 54, and private owners the rest. Biggest of the named areas: Miramichi Bay Closure, 146,842 ha. 21 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
Miramichi Bay ClosureNature reserve · 146,842 ha · reaches Tracadie
4010600Nature reserve · 2,572 ha · reaches Tracadie
4019700Nature reserve · 1,596 ha · reaches Tracadie
4019200Nature reserve · 978 ha · reaches Tracadie
4018900Nature reserve · 695 ha · reaches Tracadie
4003200Nature reserve · 436 ha · reaches Tracadie
4019000Nature reserve · 415 ha · reaches Tracadie
BrantvilleNature reserve · 262 ha · reaches Tracadie
4019400Nature reserve · 106 ha · reaches Tracadie
4019300Nature reserve · 71 ha · reaches Tracadie
9 more named areas within 10 km are in the figures.
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 43 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
43 km south239 km²since 1969
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Tracadie has 150 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
150 km
in and around the town (719.7 km²)
Woodland
73%
about 527.4 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
TracadieTowns in New BrunswickTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TracadieTowns in New BrunswickTypical Canadian town
Woodland73%
0%50%100%
It has fewer paths per km² than 77% of Canadian towns. More of it is wooded than in 93% 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 Tracadie 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
The best months for walking in Tracadie: June to September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Bas Caraquet, 35 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | -5 | -5 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 19 | 12 | 5 | -1 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 71 | 69 | 74 | 70 | 84 | 74 | 80 | 85 | 84 | 110 | 93 | 90 |
Expect around 343 cm of snow over a winter. July is the warmest month, with highs around 24 °C; January the coldest, at -5 °C. February is the driest month at 69 mm; October the wettest at 110 mm. The climate in Tracadie →
Beaches
27 beaches within 5 km of Tracadie
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Plage de Tabusintacin town
DirectionsPlage de Tracadiein town
DirectionsPlage de Tracadiein town
DirectionsTracadie Beachin town
DirectionsPokemouche Beach1.8 km from town
DirectionsPlage de Tabusintac3.2 km from town
DirectionsOpenStreetMap maps 274 km of coastline within 5 km. 21 more are mapped without a name. 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
7 viewpoints near Tracadie
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: 7 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 7
Plus 7 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 7
Plus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Campsites 5
Camp Jeunesse Richelieuin town
DirectionsCamping et Aquaparc de Tracadiein town
DirectionsCamping Val-Comeauin town
DirectionsTracadie-Beach Campingin town
DirectionsOcean River RV Resort1.9 km from town
DirectionsSlipways 2
Plus 2 slipways without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Tracadie
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Saint-IsidoreInkermanTracadie
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracadie | 13% | 54 | 0 | 27 |
| Saint-Isidore 10 km | 5.8% | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Inkerman 19 km | 0.4% | 7 | 0 | 8 |
Around Tracadie, nobody nearby has double its protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected land. The share is of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s outline, from CPCAD’s mapped areas; marine areas count, so a coastal town can score high on water.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- 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. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
Questions about the outdoors in Tracadie
Which is the biggest protected area near Tracadie?
Miramichi Bay Closure, a nature reserve of 146,842 ha.
How far is Tracadie from a national park?
Kouchibouguac National Park is closest, at 43 km.
Is there protected land near Tracadie?
Within 10 km, 13% of the land lies in protected areas.
What is the nearest beach to Tracadie?
Try Plage de Tabusintac, in town, first of several.
When is the best time for walking in Tracadie?
June to September, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
Sources
Sources for this page on Tracadie
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).