Out from Wellington: Le Pays de la Sagouine and more
The municipal boundary has no place on our list of its own; 4 are within 5 km of its edge. Look for 2 attractions, a theme park and a museum. Day-trippers head 40 km out to Kouchibouguac National Park.
The first to see around Wellington
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The layout
The dashed line is Wellington’s municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
By kind
Green: inside Wellington. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every one of them
Close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Wellington → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Wellington →
Days out
National park · Parks CanadaKouchibouguac National Park40 km northwestPlaces well known beyond Wellington (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Parks Canada property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Practical questions about Wellington
What is there to see near Wellington?
Look just beyond Wellington: within 5 km are Ïle aux puces, Akadi Lumina and Musée De Kent Inc., though none is inside it.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Wellington?
None within 5 km; the nearest, run by Parks Canada, is the one named above, 40 km northwest.
How is this list made?
Four open sources feed it (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the federal and Québec heritage registers), merged so each place appears once. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches stay only with a sign they are open to visitors, and businesses such as hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Every place is tied to the town by its 2021 outline, or by lying within 5 km of it.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Kouchibouguac National Park: jockrutherford from Owen Sound, ON, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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).