First pick
Beverly Swamp
Wood or forest
481 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
5.8 km westfrom the centre
The Lafarge 2000 Trail
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.05.6%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Freelton · parks, protected land & trails
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 15 km away, is the closest provincial park to Freelton
Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 5.6% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. 83 km separate the town from Rouge National Urban Park, its nearest national park. Within 10 km are 30 protected areas.
Protected land
5.6%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
30
within 10 km, 2 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
83 km
Rouge National Urban Park
Nearest provincial park
15 km
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Against other towns
How Freelton 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 one of Canada’s graded subjects, so there’s no letter here: each figure is set against other Canadian towns instead.
Protected within 10 km5.6%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town1.6%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 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
Freelton comes 13th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (2,685 to 2,761 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
Freelton5.6%
Towns its size2%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Freelton2
Towns its size5
Towns in Ontario4
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Freelton0
Towns its size0
Towns in Ontario1
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Freelton does best for protected land nearby: 12 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for public protected areas, where 26 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria County, Subdivision A NS | 33% | 54% | 152 | 3 | 59 |
| 2 | Highlands BC | 24% | 41% | 40 | 0 | 18 |
| 3 | Waskaganish QC | 24% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Electoral Area E, Peace River BC | 19% | 24% | 25 | 2 | 103 |
| 5 | Holyrood NL | 19% | 3.2% | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Musquodoboit Harbour NS | 16% | 28% | 50 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Meadow Lake No. 588 SK | 13% | 15% | 25 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | Eastman QC | 11% | 7.4% | 49 | 5 | 7 |
| 9 | Waterridge Village ON | 11% | 9.2% | 39 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Swan Valley West MB | 11% | 1% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast BC | 10% | 15% | 73 | 0 | 231 |
| 12 | Marritt ON | 7.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Freelton ON | 5.6% | 1.6% | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Russell MB | 4.9% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Bonaventure QC | 3.7% | 1.5% | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 16 | Emerson-Franklin MB | 3.7% | 0.1% | 123 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse QC | 3.6% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Trinity ON | 2.6% | 2.8% | 27 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | Wakefield NB | 2.2% | 0.8% | 22 | 0 | 13 |
| 20 | Sussex NB | 2.1% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| 21 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L NL | 1.9% | 0.2% | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | La Présentation QC | 1.7% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | Gore QC | 1.6% | 2.3% | 18 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Eastdale ON | 1.6% | 0% | 15 | 3 | 8 |
| 25 | Central River Heights MB | 1.5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Tuxedo Industrial MB | 1.4% | 0% | 25 | 0 | 36 |
| 27 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley BC | 1.1% | 3.5% | 28 | 3 | 6 |
| 28 | Upper Mount Royal AB | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Saint-Alexandre QC | 0.6% | 0.6% | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | Souris MB | 0.5% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Talbot-Grey MB | 0.5% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Macamic QC | 0.3% | 0% | 11 | 2 | 3 |
| 33 | Electoral Area I, Central Kootenay BC | 0.2% | 0.1% | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 34 | Rivergrove MB | 0.2% | 4.7% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Wickham QC | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Kameyosek AB | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 37 | Lee Ridge AB | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 | Saint-Martin QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Plessisville QC | 0% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 40 | Country Hills Village AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Freelton
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 Freelton: 2 named parks and woods
The biggest is Beverly Swamp, 481 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
Strabane Park
Park or garden
4.0 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
2.4 km southfrom 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 2 in 10 of Freelton’s 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 (19%)Further (81%)
Freelton19%
Towns in Ontario90%
Typical Canadian town83%
That leaves about 2,200 people more than a short walk away. The usual figure for a Canadian town is 83%, above this.
Protected areas
5.6% of the land around Freelton 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 Freelton1.6%
Within 10 km5.6%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Governments hold 2 of the 30, and private owners the rest. The largest named one is Burlington Easement, at 27 ha. Another 28 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
BontaProtected area · 8.3 ha · 5.5 km from the edge of town
Burlington EasementNature reserve · 27 ha · 7.6 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, 83 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.
National parkProvincial park
Provincial park
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
15 km east6.8 km²since 1975
National urban park
Rouge National Urban Park
83 km north-east46 km²since 2015
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, a provincial park, is nearer at 15 km.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
11 km of paths in and around Freelton
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
11 km
in and around the town (94.3 km²)
Woodland
29%
about 27 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
FreeltonTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FreeltonTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Woodland29%
0%50%100%
It has fewer paths per km² than 84% of Canadian towns. Woods cover more of it than in 73% 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
OpenStreetMap shows no walking route near Freelton
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Nothing near the neighbourhood is mapped as a named walking route, which often means the trails just haven’t been entered as routes.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
Freelton is best on foot in May, June, August and September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Hamilton, 24 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) | 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) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 73 | 53 | 69 | 81 | 81 | 78 | 98 | 67 | 74 | 84 | 78 | 67 |
Rain peaks with the heat: 98 mm in July, against 53 mm in February. January brings highs of 0 °C, July highs of 26 °C. About 115 cm of snow falls in a year. The climate in Freelton →
Things to do
Near Freelton: 6 outdoor spots on the map
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The map shows 5 playgrounds, ahead of the rest.
Every named place, with directions
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Gardens to visit
A garden to visit near Freelton: Royal Botanical Gardens, 8.3 km away
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 · 8.3 km from town
Its pageParks 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 door
Next to Freelton
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
CarlisleWaterdownColborneYork RoadGolf CourseTurnballFreelton
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
More routes are mapped around Colborne (3). Freelton holds its own on protected land: no neighbour has twice its share.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected land. The 10 km band starts at the town’s outline, not its centre, so a large municipality reaches further than a small town.
- Walking routes. The list is OpenStreetMap’s, so a missing trail may just be unmapped. The Trans Canada Trail appears where OSM maps it.
- 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 Freelton
What is the best season to get outdoors in Freelton?
On the normals, May, June, August and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Is there a provincial park near Freelton?
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 15 km away.
Which is the biggest protected area near Freelton?
Burlington Easement: 27 ha, a nature reserve.
What is the nearest national park to Freelton?
Rouge National Urban Park, 83 km from the edge of town.
Is there protected land near Freelton?
Within 10 km, 5.6% of the land lies in protected areas.
Sources
The sources behind Freelton’s 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.
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).