Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0A national park 9.8 km from South Frontenac: Thousand Islands National Park
OpenStreetMap shows 18 walking routes nearby, including the The Great Trail (Eastern Ontario) and Rideau Trail - Kingston Section. The protected share within 10 km is 9.4%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%. For a swim, IAWAH Beach is the nearest of 5 beaches within 5 km.
Where South Frontenac stands out outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Out of doors, South Frontenac leads with Thousand Islands National Park within easy reach, with its choice of walking routes close behind.
South Frontenac 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. There is no Outdoors grade for Canadian towns; the figures stand beside the country’s towns of 2,500+ without a letter.
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Among 40 towns its size, South Frontenac ranks 7th for protected land within 10 km
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (21,130 to 22,076 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
For walking routes, South Frontenac tops all 39 other towns its size.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver BC | 26% | 34% | 203 | 11 | 269 |
| 2 | Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac QC | 19% | 0.1% | 28 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | Mont-Bleu QC | 17% | 12% | 33 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Cornell ON | 12% | 16% | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Upper Lachine QC | 12% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | South End NS | 11% | 4.5% | 19 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | South Frontenac ON | 9.4% | 13% | 89 | 18 | 5 |
| 8 | Varennes QC | 9.3% | 6.2% | 56 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Colchester County, Subdivision B NS | 9% | 4.9% | 84 | 10 | 5 |
| 10 | Rivière-des-Prairies QC | 8.8% | 8.6% | 41 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Petite-Bourgogne QC | 8.4% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 5 |
| 12 | Ile-des-Soeurs QC | 7.8% | 8% | 24 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Parcours-du-Cerf - Du Tremblay QC | 6.9% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Old Barrhaven West ON | 6% | 0% | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | Cole Harbour NS | 4.4% | 6.9% | 22 | 2 | 17 |
| 16 | Sandalwood East (mountainash) ON | 4.3% | 11% | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Black Creek ON | 2.7% | 1% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | East End-Danforth ON | 2.2% | 0% | 13 | 3 | 24 |
| 19 | East L'Amoreaux ON | 2.2% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | L'Amoreaux West ON | 2.2% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Port Colborne ON | 2% | 2.1% | 10 | 0 | 8 |
| 22 | Chameran/Montpellier QC | 1.9% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | The Beaches ON | 1.9% | 0% | 11 | 3 | 44 |
| 24 | Carling ON | 1.7% | 3.5% | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | Englemount-Lawrence ON | 1.4% | 0% | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | Sunningdale ON | 1.4% | 1.6% | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | South Parkdale ON | 1.3% | 0% | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 28 | Red Deer County AB | 1.1% | 1.1% | 76 | 1 | 60 |
| 29 | Kingsview Village-The Westway ON | 0.9% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Oakdale-Beverley Heights ON | 0.9% | 0% | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | Sturgeon County AB | 0.8% | 0.7% | 25 | 8 | 1 |
| 32 | Middlesex Centre ON | 0.5% | 0.5% | 22 | 5 | 0 |
| 33 | Lloydminster (Part) AB | 0.5% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Tillsonburg ON | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | Lakeview ON | 0.2% | 0.8% | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 36 | Forest Glade ON | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 37 | Steinbach MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 38 | Riverside ON | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 39 | Evanston AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Saddle Ridge AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Where the green is in South Frontenac
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the town; tap a number for its park or wood.
21 named parks and woods to walk in near South Frontenac
Largest first: Buck Island leads with 28 ha. Numbers match the map.
Its largest place holds only 23%: the rest is spread out.
Loughborough Memorial Park
All 21 named parks and green spaces
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.
Most of South Frontenac is more than 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.
Around 21,000 residents are further than 400 m from a park. For comparison, the typical Canadian town has 83%.
Within 10 km of South Frontenac, 9.4% 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.
7 of the 89 are on public land. Frontenac Provincial Park covers 5,350 ha, the most of any named area. The figures include 38 private conservation areas, left unnamed.
1 area recorded only by its type (a provincial layer such as wildlife habitat areas) is counted, not listed.
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.
Parks around South Frontenac
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.
Frontenac Provincial Park
Thousand Islands National Park
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
275 km of paths in and around South Frontenac
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
It is more wooded than 87% of Canadian towns. 78% of Canadian towns have more footpath per km².
Source: OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Mapping varies by place: a dense figure can mean keen local mappers as much as many paths.
The The Great Trail (Eastern Ontario) passes South Frontenac
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Plus 6 more waymarked walks on the map.
The The Great Trail (Eastern Ontario) is 240 km long on the map, and 68.5 km of it lies within 2 km of town. For a longer outing, the Rideau Trail - Kingston Section runs 159.9 km.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
Walking season in South Frontenac: May to August
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Centreville (28 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | -3 | -2 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 86 | 61 | 65 | 88 | 84 | 90 | 68 | 75 | 100 | 96 | 88 | 83 |
Daytime highs run from -3 °C in January up to 25 °C in July. The wettest month, September, brings 100 mm, against 61 mm in February. Snowfall averages 158 cm a year. The climate in South Frontenac →
Beaches near South Frontenac: 5 within 5 km
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Unnamed on the map: 2 more. Sandy ones: 3. 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.
South Frontenac has 19 viewpoints and 3 waterfalls nearby
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: campsites, 33 of them.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 19
Plus 15 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 8
Plus 1 peak more.
Nature reserves 4
Picnic sites 10
Plus 9 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 16
Plus 14 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 33
Plus 25 campsites without a name on the map.
Slipways 17
Plus 9 slipways without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next to South Frontenac
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. The nearest places to South Frontenac with figures are 20–30 km away.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Frontenac | 9.4% | 89 | 18 | 5 |
| Kingston 20 km | 5% | 54 | 2 | 5 |
| Stone Mills 25 km | 10% | 58 | 1 | 0 |
| Loyalist 26 km | 1.2% | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| Frontenac Islands 30 km | 1.7% | 17 | 0 | 10 |
No place nearby has double South Frontenac’s share of protected land.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- Protected land. CPCAD maps each protected area; the page counts how much of the 10 km around the town they cover, lakes and sea included.
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- Private land. Areas held by land trusts or private owners stay unnamed here, though they count in the shares.
Questions about the outdoors in South Frontenac
When should you visit South Frontenac for the outdoors?
On the normals, May to August: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Which is the biggest protected area near South Frontenac?
Frontenac Provincial Park, a provincial park of 5,350 ha.
How far is the nearest provincial park from South Frontenac?
Frontenac Provincial Park begins at the town’s edge.
Are there protected areas near South Frontenac?
Yes: 9.4% of the land within 10 km is protected.
What walking routes are near South Frontenac?
OpenStreetMap maps the The Great Trail (Eastern Ontario), Rideau Trail - Kingston Section and Slide Lake Loop close by, with others.
Is there a beach near South Frontenac?
The nearest is IAWAH Beach, in town.
How far is South Frontenac from a national park?
It is Thousand Islands National Park, 9.8 km off.
Where South Frontenac’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.
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).