First pick
Île Léo
Wood or forest · 80 m outside town
21 ha
5.7 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mathieu Lab · CC BY 3.07.7%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Chute-Saint-Philippe · parks, protected land & trails
Protected land around Chute-Saint-Philippe beats 8 in 10 Canadian towns
Within 10 km are 26 protected areas. Kiamika - Lac-du-Cerf White-Tailed Deer Yard (10,183 ha) is the biggest, 9.8 km from town. Within 5 km are 5 beaches; Plage du secteur Kilby is the nearest.
Protected land
7.7%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
26
within 10 km, 25 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
39 km
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec)
Beaches
5
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Character
What sets Chute-Saint-Philippe apart outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Protected land all round7.7% of the land within 10 km, more than 81% of Canadian townsMany protected areas25 public areas within 10 kmBeaches5 beaches within 5 kmParks are a drive awayThe nearest provincial park, Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), is 39 km off
For someone who likes to get outside, Chute-Saint-Philippe’s draw is protected land around it, with the number of public protected areas close by close behind. Less going for it: a big park within easy reach.
Against other towns
Chute-Saint-Philippe against other 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. Canada’s grades don’t include the outdoors, so this page compares the figures rather than grading them.
Protected within 10 km7.7%Share of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s edge in a protected or conserved area
Protected in town14%Share of the town’s own area in a protected or conserved area
Public protected areas25Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches5Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Chute-Saint-Philippe comes 5th of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (1,154 to 2,587 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
Chute-Saint-Philippe7.7%
Towns its size1.6%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Chute-Saint-Philippe25
Towns its size4
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Chute-Saint-Philippe0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
Chute-Saint-Philippe beats most towns its size for public protected areas; only 1 of 39 does better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anmore BC | 22% | 47% | 16 | 5 | 98 |
| 2 | Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska QC | 19% | 0% | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Gracefield QC | 19% | 19% | 34 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | East Preston NS | 16% | 6.3% | 20 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Chute-Saint-Philippe QC | 7.7% | 14% | 26 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Clearwater BC | 7.7% | 4.1% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Roberval QC | 6.1% | 1.2% | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague QC | 5.8% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | North Frontenac ON | 5.7% | 5.2% | 13 | 6 | 4 |
| 10 | Cap-Chat QC | 5.3% | 0.4% | 13 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards ON | 4.4% | 1.5% | 9 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Saint-Polycarpe QC | 4.2% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Macassa ON | 4.1% | 0% | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Saint-Damien QC | 4% | 3.2% | 22 | 1 | 9 |
| 15 | Unity SK | 3.4% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Sherwood ON | 3.4% | 0% | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | McNab SK | 2.6% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Mandeville QC | 2.5% | 1.8% | 19 | 4 | 7 |
| 19 | Esterhazy SK | 1.8% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | City Commercial Core ON | 1.8% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Caswell Hill SK | 1.4% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 3 |
| 22 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac QC | 1.3% | 7.8% | 15 | 0 | 14 |
| 23 | Pembina MB | 1.1% | 1.8% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Burrows-Keewatin MB | 1% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Elmwood AB | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | Hatley QC | 0.7% | 0% | 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 27 | Munroe West MB | 0.4% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Brooke-Alvinston ON | 0.3% | 0.2% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Rosedale AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | Minchau AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 31 | Lunenburg NS | 0.1% | 0% | 19 | 0 | 5 |
| 32 | Salisbury NB | 0.1% | 2.1% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Dufferin MB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Ekota AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 35 | Satoo AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | Magrath AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Nanton AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Rimbey AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Sexsmith AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
The green map of Chute-Saint-Philippe
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the town; tap a number for its park or wood.
Green: OpenStreetMap parks, gardens, playing fields and woods. Hatched: CPCAD protected areas.© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); CPCAD (OGL-Canada)
Places to walk
3 named parks and woods to walk in near Chute-Saint-Philippe
Largest first: Île Léo leads with 21 ha. Numbers match the map.
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 Chute-Saint-Philippe 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%)
Chute-Saint-Philippe0%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
The usual figure for a Canadian town is 83%, above this. For about 1,200 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away.
Protected areas
26 protected areas around Chute-Saint-Philippe
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Chute-Saint-Philippe14%
Within 10 km7.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public bodies own 25 of the 26; land trusts and private owners hold the others. Biggest of the named areas: Kiamika - Lac-du-Cerf White-Tailed Deer Yard, 10,183 ha. One more area within 10 km is private land, held by a landowner or a conservation group: counted here, not named.
Lac David White-Tailed Deer YardProtected area · 5,043 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
Proposed Îles-du-Kiamika Biodiversity ReserveNature reserve · 4,624 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
06451R079 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 186 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
06451R078 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 107 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
06451R088 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 86 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
06451R089 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 51 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
lac Saint-Paul Old-Growth ForestNature reserve · 34 ha · reaches Chute-Saint-Philippe
06451R094 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 305 ha · 0.2 km from the edge of town
06451R076 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 80 ha · 0.7 km from the edge of town
Branche nord-est HeronryProtected area · 20 ha · 1.0 km from the edge of town
14 more named areas within 10 km are in the figures.
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.
National & provincial parks
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), 39 km off
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
Québec national park (provincial)
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec)
39 km south-east1,510 km²since 1981
No national park lies within 100 km of Chute-Saint-Philippe; the provincial parks are the big protected land within reach. In Québec, a parc national is a provincial park (Sépaq), not one of Parks Canada’s.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Chute-Saint-Philippe has 109 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
109 km
in and around the town (429 km²)
Woodland
86%
about 370.4 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Chute-Saint-PhilippeTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Chute-Saint-PhilippeTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland86%
0%50%100%
Paths are thinner on the ground than in 75% of Canadian towns. Woods cover more of it than in 98% 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 Chute-Saint-Philippe
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
No named route shows within 2 km of the town; volunteers map trails unevenly from one region to the next.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
Chute-Saint-Philippe is best on foot in May to July and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Maniwaki (90 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | -6 | -3 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 5 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 76 | 56 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 80 | 87 | 95 | 87 | 96 | 72 | 76 |
Rain and snow peak in October (96 mm) and ease in February (56 mm). From -6 °C in January to 25 °C in July: that is the range of daytime highs. The climate in Chute-Saint-Philippe →
Beaches
Plage du secteur Kilby, 2.3 km away, is the beach near Chute-Saint-Philippe
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Plage du secteur Kilbysand · 2.3 km from town
DirectionsUnnamed on the map: 4 more. 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
5 viewpoints near Chute-Saint-Philippe
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
48 campsites top the list.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 5
Plus 5 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 4
Plus 4 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 48
17in town
Directions18in town
Directions19in town
Directions23Bin town
Directions24in town
Directions25Ain town
Directions26in town
Directions28in town
DirectionsPlus 40 campsites more.
Slipways 3
Plus 3 slipways without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Chute-Saint-Philippe
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 Chute-Saint-Philippe with figures are 19–29 km away.
Lac-des-ÉcorcesFerme-NeuveMont-LaurierChute-Saint-Philippe
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chute-Saint-Philippe | 7.7% | 26 | 0 | 5 |
| Lac-des-Écorces 19 km | 8.8% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Ferme-Neuve 21 km | 5.6% | 42 | 0 | 2 |
| Mont-Laurier 29 km | 9.7% | 29 | 0 | 3 |
None of its neighbours has twice the protected land around it that Chute-Saint-Philippe has.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- Private land. Land owned by individuals, companies or conservation groups counts toward the figures but is never named: a person’s land isn’t a place to visit.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
- National and provincial parks. The nearest national park and the nearest provincial park are always shown when they are within 100 km.
- 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.
Questions about the outdoors in Chute-Saint-Philippe
What is the largest protected area near Chute-Saint-Philippe?
It is Kiamika - Lac-du-Cerf White-Tailed Deer Yard, a protected area covering 10,183 ha.
What is the nearest provincial park to Chute-Saint-Philippe?
The closest is Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), at 39 km.
When is the best time for walking in Chute-Saint-Philippe?
On the normals, May to July and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Is Chute-Saint-Philippe near a national park?
None within 100 km of Chute-Saint-Philippe.
How much land around Chute-Saint-Philippe is protected?
Protected areas cover 7.7% of the land within 10 km.
Where can you swim near Chute-Saint-Philippe?
The nearest is Plage du secteur Kilby, 2.3 km from town.
Sources
Sources for this page on Chute-Saint-Philippe
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).