Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Within 10 km are 23 protected areas. 15 km from town is Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), the nearest provincial park. The largest is Lac St-Louis (Centre du Lac) Water Fowl Gathering Area: 3,183 ha, 6.5 km from the edge of town.
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 (20,628 to 21,636 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Among its peers, Upper Lachine’s strong point is protected land nearby, where 6 of 39 top it.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rivière-du-Loup QC | 36% | 0.6% | 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Pitt Meadows BC | 28% | 18% | 127 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Dorval QC | 20% | 0.2% | 38 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | Dunbar-Southlands BC | 17% | 0.9% | 12 | 1 | 62 |
| 5 | Mont-Bleu QC | 17% | 12% | 33 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Woodlawn NS | 15% | 3.3% | 27 | 5 | 11 |
| 7 | Upper Lachine QC | 12% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | South Frontenac ON | 9.4% | 13% | 89 | 18 | 5 |
| 9 | Varennes QC | 9.3% | 6.2% | 56 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Colchester County, Subdivision B NS | 9% | 4.9% | 84 | 10 | 5 |
| 11 | Ile-des-Soeurs QC | 7.8% | 8% | 24 | 0 | 7 |
| 12 | Baie-Comeau QC | 7.4% | 0.4% | 22 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Maisonneuve QC | 5.2% | 0% | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures QC | 5% | 0.5% | 37 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Bridgenorth ON | 4.7% | 0.3% | 21 | 0 | 6 |
| 16 | Cole Harbour NS | 4.4% | 6.9% | 22 | 2 | 17 |
| 17 | West Rouge ON | 3.4% | 2.2% | 14 | 0 | 10 |
| 18 | Black Creek ON | 2.7% | 1% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Thorncliffe Park ON | 2.5% | 16% | 12 | 3 | 2 |
| 20 | East L'Amoreaux ON | 2.2% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | L'Amoreaux West ON | 2.2% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Gabriel-Sagard QC | 2% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Chameran/Montpellier QC | 1.9% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Thornlea ON | 1.9% | 0% | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | The Beaches ON | 1.9% | 0% | 11 | 3 | 44 |
| 26 | Carling ON | 1.7% | 3.5% | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | Huron Heights ON | 1.6% | 1.8% | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | Englemount-Lawrence ON | 1.4% | 0% | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | White Oaks ON | 1.4% | 0.1% | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | Salmon Arm BC | 1.3% | 0.1% | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| 31 | Oakwood Village ON | 1.3% | 0% | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| 32 | Camrose AB | 0.9% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Oakdale-Beverley Heights ON | 0.9% | 0% | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | Sturgeon County AB | 0.8% | 0.7% | 25 | 8 | 1 |
| 35 | Lloydminster (Part) AB | 0.5% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Tillsonburg ON | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | East Windsor ON | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 38 | Forest Glade ON | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 39 | Evanston AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Saddle Ridge AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The neighbourhood’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
The biggest is Parc du Canal-de-Lachine, 136 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
83% of the area is in just two places: Parc du Canal-de-Lachine and Falaise Saint-Jacques.
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 1,000 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away. Against the typical Canadian town’s 83%, that is high.
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Public ownership covers 16 of the 23. The largest named one is Lac St-Louis (Centre du Lac) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 3,183 ha. Not named: 7 areas held privately or with no public owner on record.
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.
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 Upper Lachine; the provincial parks are the big protected land within reach. The province names its big parks parcs nationaux, though they are provincial.
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).
It has more footpath per km² than 86% of Canadian towns. It is less wooded than 76% 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.
The map shows no named route near the neighbourhood. That says more about OpenStreetMap’s coverage than about the paths on the ground.
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), 10 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) | -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 |
Snowfall averages 217 cm a year. Daytime highs run from -5 °C in January up to 27 °C in July. October is the wettest month (103 mm) and February the driest (66 mm). The climate in Upper Lachine →
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
OpenStreetMap shows one more, nameless. 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.
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
For a climb, Sommet de Westmount rises to 201 m. The most common are playgrounds: 129 on the map.
Plus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Plus 12 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 127 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Plus 9 dog parks 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Lachine | 12% | 23 | 0 | 2 |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine 0.9 km | 11% | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| Loyola 1.7 km | 14% | 25 | 0 | 1 |
| Snowdon 2.2 km | 10% | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Hampstead 2.3 km | 12% | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Ville-Émard 2.4 km | 10% | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| Westmount 2.5 km | 8.5% | 23 | 1 | 4 |
None of its neighbours has twice the protected land around it that Upper Lachine has.
No national park lies within 100 km of Upper Lachine.
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 Lac St-Louis (Centre du Lac) Water Fowl Gathering Area, a wildlife area covering 3,183 ha.
Try Plage urbaine de Verdun, 3.1 km from town, first of several.
Yes: 12% of the land within 10 km is protected.
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), 15 km from the edge of town.
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).