First pick
Scenic Drive Park
Park or garden
11 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.1 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.07.3%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Fessenden · parks, protected land & trails
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 22 km away, is the closest provincial park to Fessenden
Of the country within 10 km, 7.3% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. One named trail is close: the Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section. The nearest national park is Rouge National Urban Park, 89 km away.
Protected land
7.3%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
16
within 10 km, 2 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
89 km
Rouge National Urban Park
Nearest provincial park
22 km
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Walking routes
1
named, within 2 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
How Fessenden 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
Protected within 10 km7.3%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town0%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas2Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes1Named 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
Fessenden comes 6th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (3,497 to 3,606 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
Fessenden7.3%
Towns its size2.1%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Fessenden2
Towns its size7
Towns in Ontario4
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Fessenden1
Towns its size0
Towns in Ontario1
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Fessenden does best for protected land nearby: 5 of the other 39 have more. On public protected areas it is behind: 28 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary BC | 17% | 21% | 13 | 0 | 39 |
| 2 | Saint-Pascal QC | 17% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part ON | 12% | 12% | 58 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | Lawrencetown NS | 8.5% | 11% | 14 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | Bridgeview BC | 8.3% | 1.1% | 116 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Fessenden ON | 7.3% | 0% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Malartic QC | 6.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Collectivité Nouvelle QC | 6.5% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Zone Aéroportuaire QC | 6.5% | 0.4% | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Guybourg QC | 6.4% | 0% | 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Edwards - Carlsbad Springs ON | 5.6% | 5.6% | 39 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Bifrost-Riverton MB | 5% | 0.7% | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Burkholme ON | 4.4% | 0% | 19 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Lac du Bonnet MB | 4.2% | 0.5% | 11 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Des Vallées QC | 3.9% | 0% | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Prince Albert No. 461 SK | 3.8% | 3.8% | 39 | 0 | 13 |
| 17 | Electoral Area L (Grasslands), Thompson-Nicola BC | 3.8% | 4.8% | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Hampton Heights ON | 3.7% | 0% | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | Ramsay AB | 2.4% | 0% | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 20 | Horton ON | 2.1% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 21 | Buckland No. 491 SK | 2% | 2.2% | 24 | 0 | 8 |
| 22 | Opportunity No. 17 AB | 2% | 0.3% | 7 | 0 | 57 |
| 23 | Victoria Park ON | 1.8% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Kingston NB | 1.7% | 0.8% | 31 | 3 | 52 |
| 25 | Thorncliff AB | 1.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | McMillan MB | 1.5% | 0% | 24 | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | Fairfield ON | 1.4% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Melancthon ON | 1.3% | 0% | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 29 | WestLake-Gladstone MB | 1.3% | 1.2% | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby QC | 1.2% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Glendale MB | 1.2% | 1.5% | 10 | 1 | 37 |
| 32 | Mactaggart AB | 0.7% | 0.9% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Downtown East Village AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | Saint-Isidore QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Saint-Gilles QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Ste. Anne MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Morris MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Carman MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Beausejour MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 40 | Three Hills AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Where the green is in Fessenden
The neighbourhood’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
Walk in Fessenden: 4 named parks and woods
Largest first: Scenic Drive Park leads with 11 ha. Numbers match the map.
4 named parks and woods, 19 ha in all
Parks & gardens 19 ha
Scenic Drive Park plus Gilkson Park account for 86% of the green.
Gilkson Park
Park or garden · 360 m outside town
4.7 ha0.4 km of path
1.1 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Lions Gate Park
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.2 km of path
0.6 km 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
All of Fessenden is within a short walk of 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Fessenden100%
Towns in Ontario90%
Typical Canadian town83%
Against the typical Canadian town’s 83%, that is high.
Protected areas
7.3% of the country within 10 km of Fessenden is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Fessenden0%
Within 10 km7.3%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Of those 16, 2 are public and the remainder private. Farmer leads for size with 15 ha. Another 14 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
FarmerProtected area · 15 ha · 5.2 km from the edge of town
Former Upper Ottawa LandfillNature reserve · 11 ha · 7.3 km from the edge of town
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
Rouge National Urban Park is 89 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
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
22 km north-east6.8 km²since 1975
National urban park
Rouge National Urban Park
89 km north-east46 km²since 2015
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, a provincial park, is nearer at 22 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: 18 km in and around Fessenden
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
18 km
in and around the town (8.2 km²)
Woodland
4.8%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
FessendenTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Footpaths2.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FessendenTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Woodland4.8%
0%50%100%
62% of Canadian towns are more wooded. Paths are denser here than in 59% 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
1 walking route near Fessenden
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Regional
Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section124.0 km
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 Fessenden: May, June, August and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Hamilton (6.9 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 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 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 |
Daytime highs run from -1 °C in January up to 27 °C in July. July is warm and wet, 98 mm; the driest month, February, has 53 mm. The climate in Fessenden →
Things to do
Fessenden has 1 viewpoints and 15 waterfalls nearby
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
There are 50 playgrounds, more than of anything else.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Waterfalls 15
Upper Mohawk Falls0.7 km from town
DirectionsMohawk Cascade0.8 km from town
DirectionsScenic Falls1.3 km from town
DirectionsUpper Sanatorium Falls1.3 km from town
DirectionsCliffview Falls1.3 km from town
DirectionsChedoke Falls1.3 km from town
DirectionsLower Sanatorium Cascade1.4 km from town
DirectionsMountview Falls1.4 km from town
DirectionsPlus 7 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 50
Fonthill Park Playgroundin town
DirectionsPlus 49 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Corporal Nathan Cirillo Leashfree Dog Park1.7 km from town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Gardens to visit
Royal Botanical Gardens, 7.3 km from Fessenden, is the garden to visit
Gardens and arboretums within 15 km of the town’s edge, and the historic gardens, parks and estates in the town itself, nearest first.
Royal Botanical GardensNational Historic Site · 7.3 km from town
Its pageA National Historic Site is among them.
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 door
Next to Fessenden
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
MountviewGurnettGilbertGilksonWestcliffe EastFalkirk EastFessenden
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fessenden | 7.3% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Mountview 0.8 km | 7% | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| Gurnett 0.9 km | 7.3% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Gilbert 0.9 km | 7.2% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Gilkson 1.2 km | 7.1% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Westcliffe East 1.3 km | 7.1% | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| Falkirk East 1.9 km | 7% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
For protected land, no neighbour of Fessenden doubles its share.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- 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.
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
Questions about the outdoors in Fessenden
Is Fessenden near a national park?
Rouge National Urban Park, 89 km from the edge of town.
What is the largest protected area near Fessenden?
Farmer, a protected area of 15 ha.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Fessenden?
May, June, August and September: long days, mild highs and little rain.
What walking routes are near Fessenden?
OpenStreetMap maps the Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section close by.
How far is the nearest provincial park from Fessenden?
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 22 km away.
Is there protected land near Fessenden?
Yes: 7.3% of the land within 10 km is protected.
Sources
Where Fessenden’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).