First pick
Parc Mary-Anne Phillips
Park or garden
3.1 ha0.2 km of path
3.6 km southfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.021%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Cantley · parks, protected land & trails
Around Cantley, 21% of the land is set aside for nature
Biggest among them: Parc de la Gatineau White-Tailed Deer Yard, 1,610 ha, 9.8 km off. CPCAD lists 32 protected areas within 10 km. Swimmers have 3 beaches within 5 km, Morrison's Quarry Beach the nearest.
Protected land
21%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
32
within 10 km, 12 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
29 km
Fitzroy Provincial Park
Beaches
3
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Each figure for Cantley, 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
Protected within 10 km21%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town1.2%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas12Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches3Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Of 40 towns its size, Cantley has the most protected land within 10 km
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (12,029 to 12,564 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
Cantley21%
Towns its size2.2%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Cantley12
Towns its size5
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Cantley0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
For protected land nearby, Cantley tops all 39 other towns its size.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cantley QC | 21% | 1.2% | 32 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Elliot Lake ON | 18% | 7.2% | 10 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Orleans Village - Chateauneuf ON | 14% | 0% | 35 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Nelson BC | 14% | 0.1% | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Summerland BC | 11% | 7.5% | 25 | 0 | 45 |
| 6 | Rideau Lakes ON | 10% | 14% | 77 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | Bridlewood AB | 7.7% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine QC | 7.3% | 6.1% | 46 | 0 | 94 |
| 9 | Saltspring Island BC | 6.7% | 17% | 109 | 3 | 44 |
| 10 | Chapman Mills ON | 6% | 1.9% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Saint-Hippolyte QC | 4.2% | 6.9% | 21 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | Humber Summit ON | 3.6% | 0% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Moncton NB | 3.4% | 1.4% | 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Milliken ON | 3.4% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Chaparral AB | 3.2% | 9.8% | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 16 | Yonge-Eglinton ON | 2.6% | 0% | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Spring Valley ON | 2.4% | 8.4% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Saint-Sauveur QC | 2.3% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 7 |
| 19 | Woodbine Corridor ON | 2.3% | 0% | 13 | 3 | 34 |
| 20 | Bromont QC | 2.2% | 2% | 25 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | St. Clements MB | 2.2% | 3% | 9 | 8 | 10 |
| 22 | Dovercourt Village ON | 2.1% | 0% | 11 | 3 | 13 |
| 23 | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts QC | 1.8% | 1.6% | 15 | 1 | 8 |
| 24 | Bayview Woods-Steeles ON | 1.7% | 17% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Forest Hill North ON | 1.5% | 0% | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 26 | Royal Oak AB | 1.4% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 27 | Grey Highlands ON | 1.3% | 0.7% | 77 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | Highland West ON | 1.3% | 0% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Georgian Bluffs ON | 1.1% | 1.9% | 67 | 4 | 17 |
| 30 | River Park South MB | 1.1% | 2.1% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Tyndall Park MB | 1.1% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Wellesley ON | 1% | 0% | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 33 | Windsor Park MB | 0.8% | 0.2% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Wetaskiwin County No. 10 AB | 0.7% | 1% | 52 | 0 | 3 |
| 35 | Blackfalds AB | 0.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Chalmers MB | 0.6% | 0% | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | Uptown ON | 0.3% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Norwich ON | 0.2% | 0% | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 39 | Etobicoke West Mall ON | 0.2% | 0% | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | DT Hospital ON | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Cantley
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
17 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Cantley
Largest first: Parc Mary-Anne Phillips leads with 3.1 ha. Numbers match the map.
17 named parks and woods, 15 ha in all
Parks & gardens 15 ha
Spread across many places, the largest holding 20%.
Parc communautaire de Farm Point
Park or garden · 190 m outside town
1.3 ha0.4 km of path
11 km north-westfrom the centre
Voie Verte Chelsea
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de quartier McNally
Park or garden · 350 m outside town
1.1 ha0.2 km of path
4.3 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Rives-de-la-Gatineau
Park or garden
1.4 ha
2.4 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Traversier
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.2 km of path
3.2 km westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
All 17 named parks and green spaces
Parc Mary-Anne PhillipsPark or garden · 3.1 ha · 0.2 km of path
DirectionsParc communautaire de Farm PointPark or garden · 1.3 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside town
DirectionsParc de quartier McNallyPark or garden · 1.1 ha · 0.2 km of path · just outside town
DirectionsParc Rives-de-la-GatineauPark or garden · 1.4 ha
DirectionsParc RiverPark or garden · 1.3 ha
DirectionsParc des ManoirsPark or garden · 1.3 ha
DirectionsParc du TraversierPark or garden · 0.6 ha · 0.2 km of path
DirectionsParc DenisPark or garden · 0.9 ha
DirectionsTerrain Longue-AlléePark or garden · 0.9 ha
DirectionsParc Grand-PréPark or garden · 0.8 ha
DirectionsParc de LaperrièrePark or garden · 0.5 ha · 0.1 km of path · just outside town
DirectionsParc HamiltonPark or garden · 0.6 ha
DirectionsParc des bons vivantsPark or garden · 0.3 ha · 0.1 km of path
DirectionsParc MarquisPark or garden · 0.5 ha
DirectionsParc GodmairePark or garden · 0.4 ha
DirectionsParc de la Montée-Saint-AmourPark or garden · 0.2 ha
DirectionsParc AnchorPark or garden · 0.2 ha
DirectionsSource: 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 3 in 10 of Cantley’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 (25%)Further (75%)
Cantley25%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
About 9,200 residents live further than 400 m from one. Most towns do better: the typical Canadian town is at 83%.
Protected areas
32 protected areas around Cantley
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Cantley1.2%
Within 10 km21%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Of the 32, 12 are public land; the others are privately held. Parc de la Gatineau White-Tailed Deer Yard leads for size with 1,610 ha. Not named: 20 areas held privately or with no public owner on record.
Gatineau Park peripheryProtected area · 223 ha · 0.7 km from the edge of town
Philemon-Leamy corridorProtected area · 48 ha · 4.0 km from the edge of town
Lac des Fées ParkwayProtected area · 17 ha · 7.4 km from the edge of town
Lac Mc Fee White-Tailed Deer YardProtected area · 1,026 ha · 7.5 km from the edge of town
07251R023 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 88 ha · 8.1 km from the edge of town
Champlain CorridorProtected area · 20 ha · 8.3 km from the edge of town
Jacques-Cartier ParkProtected area · 4.7 ha · 8.5 km from the edge of town
Moore FarmProtected area · 15 ha · 8.9 km from the edge of town
Aviation Museum WoodsWildlife area · 57 ha · 9.2 km from the edge of town
Upper Duck Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 108 ha · 9.2 km from the edge of town
2 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
Fitzroy Provincial Park is 29 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.
National parkProvincial park
Provincial park
Fitzroy Provincial Park
29 km west2.0 km²since 1963
For a national park, people in Cantley travel more than 100 km. Note that Québec calls its provincial parks parcs nationaux; Sépaq manages them.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Cantley has 62 km of footpaths in and around it
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
62 km
in and around the town (195.4 km²)
Woodland
78%
about 152.3 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
CantleyTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CantleyTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland78%
0%50%100%
For path density, 72% of Canadian towns do better. For woods, it beats 95% 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 mapped walking route near Cantley
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
OpenStreetMap lists no walking route near the town, though paths on the ground may well exist.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
The best months for walking in Cantley: May and July to September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Ottawa (City), 20 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 | -3 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 5 | -2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 65 | 52 | 62 | 81 | 80 | 95 | 92 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 72 | 74 |
About 185 cm of snow falls in a year. January brings highs of -6 °C, July highs of 26 °C. February is the driest month at 52 mm; June the wettest at 95 mm. The climate in Cantley →
Beaches
Beaches near Cantley: 3 within 5 km
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Morrison's Quarry Beach1.0 km from town
DirectionsO'Brien Beachsand · 4.9 km from town
DirectionsOne more beach goes unnamed. This page can’t show water quality: no open, Canada-wide record of beach testing exists. Check local advisories first.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
Near Cantley: 3 viewpoints, 2 waterfalls
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
Look up to Mont Edelweiss: 350 m. Count 40 playgrounds, the biggest group.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 3
Mont des Cascades290 m · in town
DirectionsBelvedere0.5 km from town
DirectionsMont Edelweiss350 m · 1.6 km from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 2
Plus 2 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 5
Plus 5 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 40
Plus 40 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 2
Parc Equestre Groulx - Parc a chienin town
DirectionsChelsea Creek Dog Park1.9 km from town
DirectionsSlipways 1
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Cantley
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
ChelseaLes RapidesHautes-PlainesLa CitéDes ValléesRivière-GatineauCantley
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantley | 21% | 32 | 0 | 3 |
| Chelsea 5.2 km | 27% | 55 | 6 | 7 |
| Les Rapides 6.9 km | 16% | 34 | 0 | 2 |
| Hautes-Plaines 8.7 km | 19% | 33 | 1 | 4 |
| La Cité 9.1 km | 9.1% | 46 | 0 | 2 |
| Des Vallées 10 km | 3.9% | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| Rivière-Gatineau 10 km | 13% | 38 | 1 | 2 |
More routes are mapped around Chelsea (6). Next door, protected shares stay within twice Cantley’s.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Beaches. Beaches are OpenStreetMap’s, named or not; in the north many are unnamed shoreline imports.
- Private land. Areas held by land trusts or private owners stay unnamed here, though they count in the shares.
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- 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. The list is OpenStreetMap’s, so a missing trail may just be unmapped. The Trans Canada Trail appears where OSM maps it.
Questions about the outdoors in Cantley
How much land around Cantley is protected?
Within 10 km, 21% of the land lies in protected areas.
Where can you swim near Cantley?
Morrison's Quarry Beach, 1.0 km from town, is the nearest mapped beach.
Is there a provincial park near Cantley?
Fitzroy Provincial Park, 29 km from the edge of town.
When should you visit Cantley for the outdoors?
May and July to September, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
How far is Cantley from a national park?
None within 100 km of Cantley.
Which is the biggest protected area near Cantley?
It is Parc de la Gatineau White-Tailed Deer Yard, a protected area covering 1,610 ha.
Sources
The sources behind Cantley’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).