More of the land around Mont-Royal is protected than around 8 in 10 Canadian towns

CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.

Mont-Royal beats most towns its size for public protected areas; 4 of 39 do better. On walking routes it is behind: 23 of 39 have more.

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.

6 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.

No national park lies within 100 km of Mont-Royal; 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.

Few places match it for paths: more than 67% of Canadian towns have fewer. It is less wooded than 84% 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.

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.

Snowfall averages 217 cm a year. Daytime highs run from -5 °C in January up to 27 °C in July. February is the driest month at 66 mm; October the wettest at 103 mm. The climate in Mont-Royal →

177 playgrounds top the list. Colline d'Outremont, 211 m, is the high point nearby.

Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

A National Historic Site is among them.

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.

Next door, protected shares stay within twice Mont-Royal’s.

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.