Photo: Balcer~commonswiki · CC BY 2.5Rock Point Provincial Park reaches the edge of Caledonia
Named trails close by number 3, the Caledonia-to-Dunnville Rail Trail and Chippawa Trail (hiking) among them. Within 5 km are 7 beaches; Wainfleet Lake Erie Public Access Beach is the nearest. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0.2% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town.
What sets Caledonia apart outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
For someone who likes to get outside, Caledonia’s draw is a provincial park at its edge, with its choice of walking routes close behind. What it lacks is protected land nearby.
How Caledonia 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. 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, Caledonia is 3rd from the bottom for protected land
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (47,002 to 67,385 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Against towns its size, Caledonia does best for walking routes: 10 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for protected land nearby, where 36 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux QC | 27% | 3.7% | 40 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Langford BC | 27% | 18% | 41 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Shawinigan QC | 24% | 61% | 40 | 16 | 10 |
| 4 | Châteauguay QC | 19% | 0.8% | 34 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Mission BC | 19% | 3.5% | 28 | 3 | 33 |
| 6 | Newton BC | 15% | 7.3% | 174 | 6 | 1 |
| 7 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC | 11% | 10% | 24 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Saint-Eustache QC | 9.9% | 0% | 42 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | Pointe-aux-Trembles QC | 9.5% | 7.3% | 38 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Rimouski QC | 8.8% | 3.6% | 43 | 10 | 48 |
| 11 | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC | 8.8% | 1.9% | 27 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | West Vancouver BC | 8.6% | 21% | 56 | 10 | 132 |
| 13 | Vernon BC | 8.4% | 1.9% | 17 | 0 | 27 |
| 14 | Whalley BC | 8.2% | 1% | 125 | 5 | 7 |
| 15 | Fleetwood BC | 7.8% | 7.9% | 162 | 10 | 0 |
| 16 | North Vancouver BC | 7.5% | 0% | 13 | 4 | 66 |
| 17 | North Bay ON | 7.4% | 5.6% | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 18 | Stouffville ON | 5.9% | 0.5% | 51 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Fabreville QC | 5.8% | 3% | 39 | 0 | 4 |
| 20 | Mascouche QC | 4% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Welland ON | 3.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Aurora ON | 2.2% | 0.6% | 42 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | Alliston ON | 2.1% | 0.4% | 36 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | Charlottetown PE | 2% | 2% | 15 | 25 | 13 |
| 25 | Quinte West ON | 1.4% | 0.6% | 22 | 3 | 1 |
| 26 | Belleville ON | 1.2% | 1.8% | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | Blainville QC | 1.1% | 0% | 27 | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | Bradford ON | 1.1% | 1.3% | 28 | 5 | 1 |
| 29 | Brandon MB | 1.1% | 0.9% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Saint-Hyacinthe QC | 0.7% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Keswick ON | 0.7% | 0.9% | 13 | 1 | 14 |
| 32 | Roseborough ON | 0.7% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Rocky View County AB | 0.5% | 0.6% | 20 | 9 | 19 |
| 34 | Woodstock ON | 0.4% | 0% | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 35 | Churchill Meadows ON | 0.4% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Innisfil ON | 0.3% | 0.1% | 6 | 1 | 17 |
| 37 | Victoriaville QC | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 38 | Caledonia ON | 0.2% | 0.4% | 17 | 4 | 7 |
| 39 | St. Thomas ON | 0.2% | 0% | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 40 | Cornwall ON | 0.1% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Where the green is in Caledonia
The town’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
Walk in Caledonia: 21 named parks and woods
The biggest is McCallum Swamp, 220 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
Add McCallum Swamp to Ruthven Park National Historic Site and you have 82% of it.
Ruthven Park National Historic Site
Ravine Park
Lions Park
Avalon Park
Kinsmen Park
Centennial Park
All 21 named parks and green spaces
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.
3 in 10 people in Caledonia 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.
For about 37,000 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away. The usual figure for a Canadian town is 83%, above this.
Protected land at the edge of Caledonia: Rock Point Provincial Park
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Public ownership covers 6 of the 17. Wainfleet Bog Conservation Reserve leads for size with 322 ha. Another 11 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
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.
Rouge National Urban Park, 98 km off
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.
Rock Point Provincial Park
James N. Allan Provincial Park
Selkirk Provincial Park
Rouge National Urban Park
There are 3 provincial parks within 10 km.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Caledonia has 127 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 · km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Paths are thinner on the ground than in 88% of Canadian towns. For woods, it beats 60% 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.
Caledonia has 3 named walking routes
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Among local routes, the Grand Valley Trail is longest at 218.5 km.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
Caledonia is best on foot in May, June, August and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Hamilton (25 km), and daylight at the town’s latitude. Good months: 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15–30 °C, little rain.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.3 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.7 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | -1 | -1 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 73 | 53 | 69 | 81 | 81 | 78 | 98 | 67 | 74 | 84 | 78 | 67 |
Winter brings about 141 cm of snow. The wettest month is the warmest, July (98 mm); February has 53 mm. The warmest days come in July (27 °C highs), the coldest in January (-1 °C). The climate in Caledonia →
Beaches near Caledonia: 7 within 5 km
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
There are also 5 beaches 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.
Caledonia has 4 viewpoints within 2 km
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
There are 39 playgrounds, more than of anything else.
Every named place, with directions
Nature reserves 10
Plus 2 nature reserves more.
Picnic sites 10
Plus 10 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 39
Plus 36 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 17
Plus 9 campsites without a name on the map.
Slipways 12
Plus 12 slipways without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
A historic garden or park in Caledonia
Gardens and arboretums within 15 km of the town’s edge, and the historic gardens, parks and estates in the town itself, nearest first.
Ruthven Park goes back furthest, to 1845. Parks Canada lists one as a National Historic Site.
Sources: OpenStreetMap (leisure=garden), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, and Wikidata (CC0), as gathered in TownRatings’ Canadian attractions set; historic places from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel.
Next to Caledonia
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. No closer places have figures: these lie 16–29 km from Caledonia.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia | 0.2% | 17 | 4 | 7 |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 16 km | 0% | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 25 km | 0.1% | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Smithville 29 km | 1.3% | 42 | 0 | 1 |
Around Smithville the protected share is at least double.
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.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- National and provincial parks. The nearest national park and the nearest provincial park are always shown when they are within 100 km.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
Questions about the outdoors in Caledonia
How much land around Caledonia is protected?
Yes: 0.2% of the land within 10 km is protected.
Is there a provincial park near Caledonia?
Rock Point Provincial Park, which reaches the edge of town.
What walking routes are near Caledonia?
OpenStreetMap maps the Caledonia-to-Dunnville Rail Trail, Chippawa Trail (hiking) and Grand Valley Trail close by, with others.
Is there a beach near Caledonia?
Wainfleet Lake Erie Public Access Beach, 3.2 km from town, is the nearest mapped beach.
What is the biggest park or reserve near Caledonia?
Wainfleet Bog Conservation Reserve: 322 ha, a nature reserve.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Caledonia?
May, June, August and September: long days, mild highs and little rain.
Is Caledonia near a national park?
Rouge National Urban Park, 98 km from the edge of town.
Where Caledonia’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.
Gardens: OpenStreetMap (leisure=garden) and Wikidata gardens within 15 km, as gathered in TownRatings’ Canadian attractions set; historic gardens and parks from Canada’s heritage registers (Parks Canada DFHD, the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel).
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).