From Garner, Bronte Creek Provincial Park is the nearest provincial park (25 km)
6.5% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). OpenStreetMap shows one walking route nearby, the Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section. CPCAD lists 12 protected areas within 10 km.
Garner beside other Canadian towns, figure by figure
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. This page carries no grade, because Canada’s grading doesn’t cover the outdoors; the comparisons are the point.
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Garner comes 10th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (5,358 to 5,565 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
For protected land nearby, Garner sits near the top of its size group: 9 of 39 have more. For public protected areas, though, 25 of 39 are ahead.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue QC | 43% | 33% | 45 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Inverness County, Subdivision A NS | 29% | 40% | 156 | 2 | 35 |
| 3 | Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay BC | 25% | 28% | 28 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Hudson QC | 20% | 1.1% | 52 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) BC | 14% | 50% | 64 | 12 | 71 |
| 6 | Island Park-Wellington Village ON | 12% | 2.9% | 35 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Billings Bridge - Heron Park ON | 11% | 2.4% | 35 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Burton NB | 9.5% | 2% | 36 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | Electoral Area L, Cariboo BC | 9.1% | 9.1% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Garner ON | 6.5% | 0% | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Carillon / Saint-Pie-X QC | 5.4% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Espanola ON | 4.5% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Woodlands AB | 3.9% | 9.6% | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Saint-Boniface QC | 3.1% | 0% | 13 | 5 | 4 |
| 15 | West Meadowlark Park AB | 2.5% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | New Glasgow PE | 2.2% | 3% | 20 | 12 | 17 |
| 17 | Huron South ON | 2.1% | 2.4% | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | North Gower - Kars ON | 2% | 3% | 22 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 | Carlton AB | 2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Metcalfe ON | 1.9% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| 21 | Stirling ON | 1.3% | 1.5% | 17 | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | Burrows Central MB | 1.1% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Windsor QC | 1% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Headingley MB | 1% | 0% | 10 | 1 | 37 |
| 25 | Saint-Jean-de-Matha QC | 0.7% | 0.1% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Cookshire-Eaton QC | 0.4% | 0.7% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 27 | Mandalay West MB | 0.4% | 0% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Riverbend MB | 0.3% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Coral Springs AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Belgravia AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 31 | Hillview AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 32 | Larkspur AB | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 33 | Southwold ON | 0.1% | 0.1% | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| 34 | Grand Falls / Grand-Sault NB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | Chisasibi QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 36 | Wingham ON | 0% | 0.2% | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | Stonewall MB | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 38 | Westlock AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Kilkenny AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Riverdale AB | 0% | 0% | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Where the green is in Garner
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the neighbourhood; tap a number for its park or wood.
6 named parks and woods to walk in near Garner
The biggest is Golf Links Park, 3.3 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
Add Golf Links Park to Pinecrest Park and you have 57% of it.
Moorland Park
Perth Park
Village Green Park
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.
About 9 in 10 of Garner’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.
About 700 residents live further than 400 m from one. A typical Canadian town reaches only 83%.
6.5% of the country within 10 km of Garner is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Of those 12, 1 are public and the remainder private. The figures include 11 private conservation areas, left unnamed.
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.
The nearest big park: Rouge National Urban Park, 92 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.
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Rouge National Urban Park
Bronte Creek Provincial Park, a provincial park, is nearer at 25 km.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Garner and its edge hold 26 km of footpath
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
More of it is wooded than in 55% of Canadian towns. For path density, 50% 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.
Garner has 1 named walking route
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
Get out in Garner in May, June, August and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Hamilton (5.7 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 | 13.4 | 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 |
Highs peak near 27 °C in July and fall to -1 °C in January. Expect 98 mm in July, warm and wet, and 53 mm in February. The climate in Garner →
Near Garner: 1 viewpoints, 13 waterfalls
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
Top of the list: playgrounds, 30 of them.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Waterfalls 13
Plus 5 waterfalls more.
Playgrounds 30
Plus 30 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
The garden near Garner: Royal Botanical Gardens, 11 km off
Gardens and arboretums within 15 km of the town’s edge, and the historic gardens, parks and estates in the town itself, nearest first.
One is 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 Garner
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
No place nearby has double Garner’s share of protected land. Sulphur Springs has the most mapped walking routes nearby: 3.
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.
- National and provincial parks. A park at 0 km touches or overlaps the town’s outline; directions point from the town’s centre.
- 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.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
Questions about the outdoors in Garner
Is Garner near a national park?
It is Rouge National Urban Park, 92 km off.
Where can you walk near Garner?
Try the Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section.
Which is the biggest protected area near Garner?
Farmer: 15 ha, a protected area.
How much land around Garner is protected?
Within 10 km, 6.5% of the land lies in protected areas.
What is the nearest provincial park to Garner?
It is Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 25 km away.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Garner?
May, June, August and September: long days, mild highs and little rain.
The sources behind Garner’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).