First pick
Parc du Belvédère
Park or garden
5.0 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.06.6%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Malartic · parks, protected land & trails
Moraine-d'Harricana biodiversity reserve reaches Malartic
Within 10 km of the town, 6.6% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town. National parks are all over 100 km off. The closest provincial park is Aiguebelle National Park (Québec), 45 km from the edge of town.
Protected land
6.6%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
3
within 10 km, 2 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
45 km
Aiguebelle National Park (Québec)
Character
What Malartic has going for it outdoors
Each figure against Canadian towns of 2,500+; tap a tile for the detail.
Protected land all round6.6% of the land within 10 km, more than 77% of Canadian townsParks are a drive awayThe nearest provincial park, Aiguebelle National Park (Québec), is 45 km off
Above all, Malartic offers protected land around it. It has less to offer in a big park within easy reach.
Against other towns
How Malartic compares with 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. There is no Outdoors grade for Canadian towns; the figures stand beside the country’s towns of 2,500+ without a letter.
Protected within 10 km6.6%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 areas2Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Malartic ranks 9th for protected land within 10 km
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (3,442 to 3,574 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
Malartic6.6%
Towns its size1.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Malartic2
Towns its size4
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Malartic0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Malartic does best for protected land nearby: 8 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for public protected areas, where 23 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wellington NB | 32% | 2.4% | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 2 | Shuniah ON | 19% | 1.4% | 13 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary BC | 17% | 21% | 13 | 0 | 39 |
| 4 | Saint-Pascal QC | 17% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Lawrencetown NS | 8.5% | 11% | 14 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Bridgeview BC | 8.3% | 1.1% | 116 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Mackenzie BC | 7.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Fessenden ON | 7.3% | 0% | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | Malartic QC | 6.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Guybourg QC | 6.4% | 0% | 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC | 6.2% | 7.6% | 18 | 0 | 5 |
| 12 | Edwards - Carlsbad Springs ON | 5.6% | 5.6% | 39 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Port Hawkesbury NS | 5.1% | 0% | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Saint-Thomas QC | 5.1% | 0.5% | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Bifrost-Riverton MB | 5% | 0.7% | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 | Electoral Area L (Grasslands), Thompson-Nicola BC | 3.8% | 4.8% | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Hampton Heights ON | 3.7% | 0% | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | Horton ON | 2.1% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 19 | Buckland No. 491 SK | 2% | 2.2% | 24 | 0 | 8 |
| 20 | Victoria Park ON | 1.8% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Thorncliff AB | 1.6% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | McMillan MB | 1.5% | 0% | 24 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | Brevoort Park SK | 1.5% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | Fairfield ON | 1.4% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby QC | 1.2% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Buchanan MB | 1.2% | 0.1% | 11 | 1 | 37 |
| 27 | Niakwa Place MB | 0.8% | 4.3% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Richmond County, Subdivision C NS | 0.6% | 1.8% | 27 | 0 | 31 |
| 29 | Lynnwood AB | 0.4% | 0% | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | Downtown East Village AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Daly Grove AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 32 | Sakaw AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 33 | Richfield AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Saint-Isidore QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Saint-Gilles QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Morris MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Carman MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Beausejour MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 39 | Three Hills AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Delwood AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Malartic 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
Walk in Malartic: 4 named parks and woods
Parc du Belvédère is the largest, at 5.0 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
4 named parks and woods, 9 ha in all
Parks & gardens 9.1 ha
Between them, Parc du Belvédère and Parc de la Côte Jaune cover 85%.
Parc de la Côte Jaune
Park or garden
2.8 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Malartic
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Stoykovich
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.2 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Malartic
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
A park is within a short walk for 4 in 10 in Malartic
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 (41%)Further (59%)
Malartic41%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
That is below the typical Canadian town (83%). About 2,100 residents live further than 400 m from one.
Protected areas
Around Malartic, protected areas make up 6.6%
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Malartic0%
Within 10 km6.6%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Of those 3, 2 are public and the remainder private. Biggest of the named areas: Moraine-d'Harricana biodiversity reserve, 36,500 ha. One further area is privately owned conservation land; it counts in the figures but isn’t named, as a person’s land isn’t a place to visit.
Moraine-d'Harricana biodiversity reserveNature reserve · 36,500 ha · reaches Malartic
08351R002 Biological RefugeWildlife area · 88 ha · 0.8 km from the edge of town
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
Aiguebelle National Park (Québec), 45 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)
Aiguebelle National Park (Québec)
45 km north-west268 km²since 1985
For a national park, people in Malartic travel more than 100 km. Sépaq runs Québec’s parcs nationaux, which are provincial parks under another name.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Malartic and its edge hold 29 km of footpath
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
29 km
in and around the town (226.8 km²)
Woodland
75%
about 171 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
MalarticTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MalarticTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland75%
0%50%100%
More of it is wooded than in 94% of Canadian towns. For path density, 83% of Canadian towns do better.
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 Malartic 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.
Nothing near the town is mapped as a named walking route, which often means the trails just haven’t been entered as routes.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
May is the best month for walking in Malartic
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Val-D'or, 26 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | -10 | -8 | -2 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 1 | -6 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 55 | 42 | 47 | 65 | 69 | 84 | 101 | 93 | 102 | 82 | 75 | 54 |
Precipitation runs from 42 mm in February to 102 mm in September. From -10 °C in January to 24 °C in July: that is the range of daytime highs. The climate in Malartic →
Things to do
Malartic has a viewpoint within 2 km
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The map shows 6 playgrounds, ahead of the rest.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Malartic
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page. Malartic has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 7–49 km out.
Rivière-HévaVal-d'OrAmosBarrauteMalartic
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malartic | 6.6% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Rivière-Héva 6.9 km | 9.3% | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Val-d'Or 25 km | 11% | 55 | 0 | 4 |
| Amos 49 km | 0.5% | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| Barraute 49 km | 0.5% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Malartic holds its own on protected land: no neighbour has twice its share.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- National and provincial parks. The nearest national park and the nearest provincial park are always shown when they are within 100 km.
- Protected land. Measured on CPCAD’s outlines: the part of a 10 km band around the town that lies in a protected or conserved area, water included.
- 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. 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.
Questions about the outdoors in Malartic
How far is the nearest provincial park from Malartic?
Aiguebelle National Park (Québec), 45 km away.
When should you visit Malartic for the outdoors?
May, on the 1991–2020 normals and the daylight: long days, highs of 15 °C or more, light rain for the place.
Is there protected land near Malartic?
Within 10 km, 6.6% of the land lies in protected areas.
What is the largest protected area near Malartic?
Moraine-d'Harricana biodiversity reserve, a nature reserve of 36,500 ha.
What is the nearest national park to Malartic?
No national park lies within 100 km of Malartic.
Sources
Sources for this page on Malartic
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).