Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Within 10 km are 40 protected areas. The nearest provincial park, Oka National Park (Québec), is 9.5 km away. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Petite Plage.
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Les Cèdres’ best card is protected land around it, with the number of public protected areas close by close behind.
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 graded in Canada. The page compares each figure with other towns and leaves it there.
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (6,997 to 7,290 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Against towns its size, Les Cèdres does best for public protected areas: 4 of the other 39 have more.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernie BC | 31% | 0.1% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Hope BC | 15% | 4.1% | 11 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Vanier South ON | 12% | 1.1% | 39 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | Springhill NS | 11% | 9% | 79 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Algoma, Unorganized, North Part ON | 11% | 10% | 91 | 4 | 228 |
| 6 | Les Cèdres QC | 11% | 0.1% | 40 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Peace River AB | 8.4% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Kent BC | 8.3% | 8.2% | 16 | 2 | 42 |
| 9 | L'Ange-Gardien QC | 5.4% | 0% | 59 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Hope ON | 4.8% | 1.8% | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Carlisle ON | 4% | 0% | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Raleigh ON | 4% | 0% | 20 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Edgeley ON | 3.9% | 0.4% | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Haysboro AB | 3.9% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 15 | Midnapore AB | 3.3% | 32% | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 16 | Concord ON | 3.1% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Saint-Paul QC | 2.4% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Athabasca County AB | 2.4% | 3.2% | 35 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Electoral Area C, East Kootenay BC | 2.3% | 1.5% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Twin Lakes SK | 2.3% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Colborne ON | 2.2% | 0.3% | 28 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Fairwinds BC | 2.2% | 4.7% | 23 | 0 | 15 |
| 23 | Brown's Corners ON | 1.8% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Lymburn AB | 1.7% | 0% | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | North River Heights MB | 1.5% | 0% | 26 | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | Sherbrooke AB | 1.5% | 0% | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 27 | King Edward MB | 1.3% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Inglewood AB | 1.3% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Shannon QC | 0.9% | 3.9% | 21 | 1 | 14 |
| 30 | Merritt BC | 0.9% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 31 | Chibougamau QC | 0.8% | 0.1% | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 32 | Cougar Ridge AB | 0.7% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 | Yarmouth NS | 0.6% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 5 |
| 34 | Erin Woods AB | 0.6% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 35 | La Sarre QC | 0.5% | 0.1% | 9 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 | Brighton SK | 0.5% | 0.1% | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | Rhatigan Ridge AB | 0.5% | 0% | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh ON | 0.4% | 0.9% | 13 | 5 | 5 |
| 39 | Niverville MB | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Kincora AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The town’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
Parc des Îles-de-Saint-Timothée is the largest, at 15 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
Île à l'Ail plus Parc des Îles-de-Saint-Timothée account for 49% of the green.
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.
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.
For about 5,000 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away. The typical Canadian town does better, at 83%.
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Public bodies own 28 of the 40; land trusts and private owners hold the others. At 2,370 ha, Oka National Park (Québec) is the largest. 12 areas, privately held or of unrecorded ownership, are left unnamed.
18 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 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.
No national park lies within 100 km of Les Cèdres; 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.
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).
Paths are thinner on the ground than in 61% of Canadian towns. More of it is wooded than in 62% 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.
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
OpenStreetMap has no named walking route within 2 km of the town. Trails may exist without being mapped as routes.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Montreal Trudeau (Airport), 30 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 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | -5 | -3 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 13 | 6 | -1 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 86 | 66 | 77 | 90 | 86 | 84 | 91 | 94 | 89 | 103 | 84 | 92 |
Some 217 cm of snow falls each winter. Expect 103 mm in October, the wettest month, and 66 mm in February. Summer highs reach 27 °C in July; in January they stay near -5 °C. The climate in Les Cèdres →
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Unnamed on the map: 2 more. Whether the water is fit for a swim isn’t in any open national dataset; public health posts the local advisories.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
There are 79 playgrounds, more than of anything else.
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Gardens and arboretums within 15 km of the town’s edge, and the historic gardens, parks and estates in the town itself, nearest first.
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.
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Cèdres | 11% | 40 | 0 | 4 |
| Pointe-des-Cascades 7.1 km | 20% | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion 8.3 km | 20% | 73 | 0 | 10 |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 8.3 km | 8.8% | 27 | 0 | 2 |
| Pincourt 8.7 km | 33% | 38 | 0 | 4 |
| Coteau-du-Lac 8.9 km | 4.4% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil 9.4 km | 37% | 36 | 0 | 4 |
For protected land, Pincourt and Terrasse-Vaudreuil have twice as much or more.
Protected areas cover 11% of the land within 10 km.
Oka National Park (Québec), 9.5 km away.
Try Petite Plage, 0.4 km from town, first of several.
May to September, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
It is Oka National Park (Québec), a québec national park (provincial) covering 2,370 ha.
The nearest national park is more than 100 km from Les Cèdres.
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.
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).