First pick
Riverview Park
Park or garden · 210 m outside town
3.8 ha
3.1 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Percy Russell Doherty · Public domain0.3%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Fort Frances · parks, protected land & trails
Protected land at Fort Frances’ edge: Rainy Lake Islands Conservation Reserve
Goose Island Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 10 km. Within 10 km of the town, 0.3% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town. The nearest national park is more than 100 km away.
Protected land
0.3%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
1
within 10 km, 1 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
10 km
Goose Island Provincial Park
Against other towns
Each figure for Fort Frances, 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
Protected within 10 km0.3%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town0.3%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
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Fort Frances sits 7th from last of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (7,463 to 7,770 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
Fort Frances0.3%
Towns its size2.1%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Fort Frances1
Towns its size4
Towns in Ontario4
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Fort Frances0
Towns its size0
Towns in Ontario1
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Fort Frances is weakest for protected land nearby: 32 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digby NS | 27% | 33% | 43 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | Blackburn Hamlet ON | 15% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Beacon Hill South - Cardinal Heights ON | 13% | 0% | 37 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Hampstead QC | 12% | 0% | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Baie-Saint-Paul QC | 11% | 0.1% | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| 6 | Lochdale BC | 7.2% | 0% | 15 | 2 | 71 |
| 7 | Parry Sound ON | 7.1% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Mountview ON | 7% | 0% | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Louiseville QC | 6.9% | 0.9% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | N-Section (bramalea) ON | 5.5% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Landsdale ON | 4.7% | 0% | 23 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Gibson ON | 4.6% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Saint-Calixte QC | 3.6% | 0.4% | 11 | 0 | 5 |
| 14 | Campbellton NB | 3.5% | 0% | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Shefford QC | 3.1% | 1.6% | 34 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 | Lakeview SK | 2.8% | 0.1% | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Westlock County AB | 2.6% | 3.4% | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Blake-Jones ON | 2.3% | 0% | 12 | 4 | 32 |
| 19 | Playter Estates-Danforth ON | 2.3% | 1.5% | 11 | 5 | 18 |
| 20 | University ON | 2.2% | 0% | 12 | 9 | 20 |
| 21 | Altadore AB | 2% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 22 | Stoneybrook ON | 1.8% | 21% | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | Eastview SK | 1.7% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Pulberry MB | 1.5% | 7.7% | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Bostwick ON | 1.3% | 0.1% | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | Kentville NS | 1.1% | 17% | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Brazeau County AB | 1% | 1.2% | 29 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Ambleside AB | 1% | 0% | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | Fruitland ON | 0.9% | 4.9% | 25 | 5 | 9 |
| 30 | Augusta ON | 0.8% | 0% | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Betsworth MB | 0.8% | 1.5% | 12 | 1 | 37 |
| 32 | Chatsworth ON | 0.6% | 0.7% | 45 | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | Chesley ON | 0.3% | 0.2% | 19 | 0 | 5 |
| 34 | Fort Frances ON | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Forest Lawn AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Ermineskin AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | Fairview ON | 0.1% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Port Credit ON | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 39 | Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Saint-Félix-de-Valois QC | 0% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Fort Frances
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
7 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Fort Frances
Riverview Park is the largest, at 3.8 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
7 named parks and woods, 16 ha in all
Parks & gardens 16 ha
Two places, Riverview Park and Point Park, make up 44% of the total.
Smokey Bear Park
Park or garden · 360 m outside town
2.1 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
1.6 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Shorewood Park
Park or garden · 350 m outside town
2.3 ha0.4 km of path
4.4 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Tony Rizzo Field
Park or garden · 210 m outside town
2.7 ha
2.2 km south-westfrom 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
About 5 in 10 of Fort Frances’ residents are a short walk from 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 (52%)Further (48%)
Fort Frances52%
Towns in Ontario90%
Typical Canadian town83%
About 3,700 residents live further than 400 m from one. The typical Canadian town reaches 83%.
Protected areas
Rainy Lake Islands Conservation Reserve reaches Fort Frances
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Fort Frances0.3%
Within 10 km0.3%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
It is public land.
Rainy Lake Islands Conservation ReserveNature reserve · 5,906 ha · reaches Fort Frances
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
Goose Island Provincial Park is 10 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
Provincial park
Goose Island Provincial Park
10 km east0.7 km²since 2008
For a national park, people in Fort Frances travel more than 100 km.
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: 10 km in and around Fort Frances
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
10 km
in and around the town (64.2 km²)
Woodland
0.4%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Fort FrancesTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Fort FrancesTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Woodland0.4%
0%50%100%
For woods, 87% of Canadian towns have more. For path density, 80% of Canadian towns do better.
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 mapped walking route near Fort Frances
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 walking year in Fort Frances
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Fort Frances, 5.1 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | -9 | -6 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 1 | -6 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 32 | 21 | 32 | 45 | 86 | 109 | 102 | 85 | 84 | 59 | 43 | 33 |
In July the typical high is 25 °C; in January, -9 °C. June is the wettest month (109 mm) and February the driest (21 mm). A typical year sees 157 cm of snow. The climate in Fort Frances →
Things to do
11 things to do outdoors near Fort Frances
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 slipways: 5 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Point Parkin town
DirectionsRiverside Court0.3 km from town
DirectionsSlipways 5
Fort Frances Boat Launchin town
DirectionsSorting Gap Marinain town
DirectionsRon Hall Memorial Landing0.2 km from town
DirectionsPat Roche Senior Public Water Access Site0.3 km from town
DirectionsRanier Public Water Access Site0.4 km from town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Fort Frances
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. Fort Frances has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 22–137 km out.
Rainy River, UnorganizedEmoMachinAtikokanDrydenFort Frances
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Frances | 0.3% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rainy River, Unorganized 22 km | 23% | 26 | 0 | 5 |
| Emo 31 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Machin 130 km | 7.5% | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Atikokan 132 km | 19% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dryden 137 km | 11% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Around Rainy River, Unorganized, Machin and Atikokan the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- Walking routes. A route counts when 300 m or more of it lies within 2 km of the town. Coverage of trails on OpenStreetMap varies by region.
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- 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.
Questions about the outdoors in Fort Frances
What is the nearest national park to Fort Frances?
None within 100 km of Fort Frances.
Is there protected land near Fort Frances?
Yes: 0.3% of the land within 10 km is protected.
What is the largest protected area near Fort Frances?
Rainy Lake Islands Conservation Reserve, a nature reserve of 5,906 ha.
Is there a provincial park near Fort Frances?
Goose Island Provincial Park, 10 km from the edge of town.
Sources
The sources behind Fort Frances’ outdoors figures
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).