Hamilton has 8 walking routes on the map

What Hamilton has most to offer outdoors is its choice of walking routes, with its beaches close behind.

CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.

Against towns its size, Hamilton does best for walking routes: 5 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for protected land nearby, where 24 of 39 have more.

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.

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.

Nearer still is Bronte Creek Provincial Park, a provincial park 8.8 km away.

Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.

For path density, 63% of Canadian towns do better. For woods, it beats 65% 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.

The Bruce Trail - Iroquoia section is the big one locally: 124.0 km. 2 of them are under 3 km, good for a short outing.

Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.

Daytime highs run from 0 °C in January up to 26 °C in July. Summer brings the most rain: 98 mm in July; February gets 53 mm. The climate in Hamilton →

3 are mapped as sand. There are also 16 beaches without a name. Water quality isn’t shown: there’s no open national record of beach tests. Local health authorities post advisories.

Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

The tallest named summit close by is Burlington Heights (100 m). The map shows 489 playgrounds, ahead of the rest.

Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Parks 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.

For protected land, Inch Park, Eastmount and Hill Park have twice as much or more.

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.