First pick
Île Limerick
Wood or forest · 170 m outside town
35 ha
12 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: P199 · Public domain2.1%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Horton · parks, protected land & trails
Protected land at Horton’s edge: Île Kennedy Water Fowl Gathering Area
For a provincial park, Alexander Stewart Provincial Park lies 6.6 km off. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, none with a name. Biggest among them: Île du Grand Calumet White-Tailed Deer Yard, 674 ha, 9.4 km off.
Protected land
2.1%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
20
within 10 km, 13 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
6.6 km
Alexander Stewart Provincial Park
Beaches
4
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Each figure for Horton, 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. 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 km2.1%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 areas13Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches4Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Horton ranks 20th for protected land within 10 km
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
Horton2.1%
Towns its size2.1%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Horton13
Towns its size7
Towns in Ontario4
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Horton0
Towns its size0
Towns in Ontario1
Typical Canadian town0
Among its peers, Horton’s strong point is public protected areas, where 10 of 39 top it.
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
Horton on the map: green space, protected land and paths
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
2 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Horton
Largest first: Île Limerick leads with 35 ha. Numbers match the map.
Horton Heights Park
Park or garden · 140 m outside town
0.6 ha
8.3 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
Few people in Horton live near 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Horton0%
Towns in Ontario90%
Typical Canadian town83%
That leaves about 3,600 people more than a short walk away. For comparison, the typical Canadian town has 83%.
Protected areas
Within 10 km of Horton, 2.1% is protected land
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Horton0%
Within 10 km2.1%
Towns in Ontario2.3%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Governments hold 13 of the 20, and private owners the rest. Île du Grand Calumet White-Tailed Deer Yard is the biggest, 674 ha. 7 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
Île Kennedy Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 443 ha · reaches Horton
Sand Bay (est) Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 402 ha · reaches Horton
Baie Féline Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 225 ha · reaches Horton
Baie Armstrong Muskrat HabitatWildlife area · 12 ha · 0.9 km from the edge of town
Sand-Bay (2,0 km S.-E. de) Island Or Peninsula Inhabited By A Colony of BirdsWildlife area · 0.1 ha · 0.9 km from the edge of town
Baie Cowley Muskrat HabitatWildlife area · 25 ha · 1.0 km from the edge of town
Baie Féline Muskrat HabitatWildlife area · 15 ha · 1.5 km from the edge of town
Hawkins Property Conservation ReserveNature reserve · 332 ha · 6.0 km from the edge of town
Alexander Stewart Provincial ParkProvincial park · 30 ha · 6.6 km from the edge of town
Grand Marais de Bristol Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 360 ha · 6.7 km from the edge of town
3 more named areas within 10 km are in the figures.
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
6.6 km to Alexander Stewart Provincial Park
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
Alexander Stewart Provincial Park
6.6 km south-east0.3 km²since 2003
There is no national park within 100 km; for big parks, Horton has its province’s.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
48 km of paths in and around Horton
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
48 km
in and around the town (246.3 km²)
Woodland
38%
about 93.4 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
HortonTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HortonTowns in OntarioTypical Canadian town
Woodland38%
0%50%100%
Woods cover more of it than in 78% of Canadian towns. It has fewer paths per km² than 78% 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
No named walking route passes Horton on the map
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
Walking season in Horton: May and September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Luskville, 42 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | -6 | -4 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 5 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 77 | 63 | 63 | 74 | 79 | 99 | 97 | 96 | 87 | 84 | 74 | 76 |
The wettest month, June, brings 99 mm, against 63 mm in February. The warmest days come in July (26 °C highs), the coldest in January (-6 °C). Winter brings about 193 cm of snow. The climate in Horton →
Beaches
4 beaches within 5 km of Horton, none named
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
No national or provincial register of beach water quality is published as open data, so check the local health unit before swimming.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
A waterfall near Horton
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 playgrounds: 10 on the map.
Every named place, with directions
Waterfalls 1
Bonnechere Fallsin town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 10
Ned and Beth Farrell Memorial Park0.9 km from town
DirectionsPlus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Grandview Cottages & Trailer Parkin town
DirectionsSerenity Hills RV Parkin town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Horton
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
RenfrewShawvilleBristolMcNab/BraesideClarendonArnpriorHorton
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
For protected land, Bristol has twice as much or more.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected land. Protected here means in CPCAD, Canada’s official list: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and other conserved land, measured within 10 km of the town’s edge.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- National and provincial parks. National parks are Parks Canada’s; provincial parks are the province’s or territory’s, Québec’s parcs nationaux among them.
Questions about the outdoors in Horton
What is the nearest provincial park to Horton?
Alexander Stewart Provincial Park, 6.6 km from the edge of town.
What is the biggest park or reserve near Horton?
Île du Grand Calumet White-Tailed Deer Yard: 674 ha, a protected area.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Horton?
On the normals, May and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Where can you swim near Horton?
There are beaches within 5 km, none of them named.
Are there protected areas near Horton?
Protected areas cover 2.1% of the land within 10 km.
What is the nearest national park to Horton?
No national park lies within 100 km of Horton.
Sources
The sources behind Horton’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.
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).