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Attractions in Chalk River
Photo: Fort William, P199 (CC BY-SA 3.0)From Chalk River, 19 km to Fort William
All of it lies outside: 3 places within 5 km of its edge, none inside Chalk River’s municipal boundary. Look for 2 museums and a fort. St. Columbkille Cathedral, 37 km away, is the best-known day out.
In Chalk River
0
inside the municipal boundary
Within 5 km
3
of the town’s edge
Museums & galleries
2
in or near town
Forts & historic sites
1
in or near town
Best known
Just outside Chalk River, the best known
FortFort William3.7 km outside town, to the eastEach has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The map
Where to find them
The dashed line is Chalk River’s municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
By kind
What kind of places
Museums & galleries 2 museums0 in town · 2 nearby
Forts & historic sites 1 fort0 in town · 1 nearby
Green: inside Chalk River. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every place
All of it
1Close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Chalk River → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Chalk River →
Big names nearby
A little further out
Places well known beyond Chalk River (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.
Seeing Chalk River: your questions
What is there to see near Chalk River?
Look just beyond Chalk River: within 5 km are Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum and Canadian Clock Museum The, though none is inside it.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Chalk River?
Our list has none in Chalk River or within 5 km of it.
How is this list made?
Museums and galleries, national historic sites and forts, lighthouses, gardens, national parks, waterfalls, ski hills, zoos and theme parks: OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the heritage registers each add some, merged into one list. A historic building is kept only with a sign of visitors (opening hours, a fee, a website, a heritage operator, a Wikipedia article), never hotels, restaurants or tour firms. The town’s 2021 outline, plus 5 km around it, decides what is listed here.
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 (2)
- Fort William: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St. Columbkille Cathedral: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).