First pick
Parc Régional des Chutes Dorwin
Park or garden
22 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
2.8 km south-eastfrom the centre
Sentier de l'ÎleSentiers forestiers drainésSentier du Cap Rocheux+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Nicolas Raymond from Bethesda, Maryland, USA · CC BY 2.01.7%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Rawdon · parks, protected land & trails
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), 30 km away, is the closest provincial park to Rawdon
Proposed Station-de-biologie-des-Laurentides Biodiversity Reserve (2,963 ha) is the biggest, 6.3 km from town. Swimmers have 5 beaches within 5 km, Plage Municipale De Rawdon the nearest. For a national park, La Mauricie National Park is 79 km away.
Protected land
1.7%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
7
within 10 km, 4 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
79 km
La Mauricie National Park
Nearest provincial park
30 km
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec)
Beaches
5
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Each figure for Rawdon, set against 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
Protected within 10 km1.7%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 areas4Areas 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
Among 40 towns its size, Rawdon is 14th from the bottom for protected land
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (12,880 to 13,331 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
Rawdon1.7%
Towns its size2.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Rawdon4
Towns its size4
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Rawdon0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
For protected land nearby, Rawdon lags towns its size: 26 of 39 are ahead.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathurst NB | 20% | 2.6% | 13 | 1 | 17 |
| 2 | Westboro ON | 13% | 5.5% | 32 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Centre-Ville QC | 11% | 22% | 40 | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | North Saanich BC | 9.2% | 5.1% | 37 | 0 | 24 |
| 5 | Quantztown ON | 8.5% | 0% | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Windsor Park NS | 7.6% | 0% | 18 | 4 | 17 |
| 7 | Saint-Jean-Vianney QC | 6.9% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | Pine Grove ON | 6.2% | 37% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Bonnyville No. 87 AB | 5.5% | 1% | 13 | 0 | 20 |
| 10 | Prince Rupert BC | 5.5% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Deerfield ON | 5.2% | 6.3% | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Madoc ON | 5.1% | 0% | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Springdale ON | 4.9% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Aloha Estates BC | 4.3% | 2% | 111 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | Carrville Corners ON | 4.1% | 0.5% | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Peel Village ON | 3.8% | 0.9% | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Stittsville North ON | 3.7% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Thornhill Woods ON | 3.5% | 2% | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | New Brighton AB | 2.9% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 20 | Stratford PE | 2.7% | 0.9% | 19 | 12 | 13 |
| 21 | Albert Park SK | 2.7% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 22 | Yonge-St.Clair ON | 2.5% | 0% | 14 | 3 | 4 |
| 23 | Ayr ON | 2.4% | 1.8% | 36 | 8 | 4 |
| 24 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON | 2.2% | 0% | 11 | 9 | 38 |
| 25 | Erin ON | 2.1% | 0.2% | 48 | 6 | 1 |
| 26 | Palmerston-Little Italy ON | 2.1% | 0% | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 27 | Rawdon QC | 1.7% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| 28 | Forest ON | 1.7% | 6.7% | 9 | 2 | 18 |
| 29 | Corso Italia-Davenport ON | 1.4% | 0% | 11 | 2 | 8 |
| 30 | Brighton ON | 1.3% | 4.2% | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 31 | Kincardine ON | 1% | 0.9% | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 32 | Signal Hill AB | 0.9% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Dakota Crossing MB | 0.8% | 2.1% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Lloydminster (Part) SK | 0.5% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Centre-Nord (Montréal-Nord) QC | 0.5% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Sainte-Julienne QC | 0.2% | 1.7% | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 37 | Huntington Hills AB | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Downtown AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 39 | Thompson MB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Redstone AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Where the green is in Rawdon
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 Rawdon: 7 named parks and woods
The biggest is Parc Régional des Chutes Dorwin, 22 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
7 named parks and woods, 48 ha in all
Parks & gardens 44 haWoods 3.5 ha
Most of it sits in Parc Régional des Chutes Dorwin and Parc Nichol: 65% together.
Parc Nichol
Park or garden
8.8 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.4 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
21. Cachette
Wood or forest
3.5 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
8.4 km westfrom the centre
La Forêt EnchantéeLarry'sLa Cachette
Directionsto a point inside
Parc le Jardin de la Roseraie
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.2 km of path
1.5 km south-eastfrom the centre
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
About 2 in 10 of Rawdon’s residents are a short walk from 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 (20%)Further (80%)
Rawdon20%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
The typical Canadian town reaches 83%. Around 10,400 residents are further than 400 m from a park.
Protected areas
1.7% of the country within 10 km of Rawdon is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Rawdon0%
Within 10 km1.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
On public land: 4 of the 7. The others are private conservation land. Biggest of the named areas: Proposed Station-de-biologie-des-Laurentides Biodiversity Reserve, 2,963 ha. 3 areas belong to private owners or land trusts and aren’t named here.
Proposed Station-de-biologie-des-Laurentides Biodiversity ReserveNature reserve · 2,963 ha · 6.3 km from the edge of town
Station-de-Biologie-des-Laurentides Territorial reserve for protected area purposesNature reserve · 89 ha · 6.3 km from the edge of town
Albert, lac HeronryProtected area · 66 ha · 8.7 km from the edge of town
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
La Mauricie National Park is 79 km away
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)
30 km north-west1,510 km²since 1981
National park
La Mauricie National Park
79 km north-east536 km²since 1970
Closer to home, Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec) is 30 km away. Québec’s “national” parks are the province’s own, managed by Sépaq.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Rawdon has 106 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
106 km
in and around the town (262.9 km²)
Woodland
78%
about 204.1 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
RawdonTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RawdonTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland78%
0%50%100%
It is more wooded than 95% of Canadian towns. 69% of Canadian towns have more footpath per km².
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 Rawdon 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.
The map shows no named route near the town. 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.
When to get out
The best months for walking in Rawdon: May to July and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Fleury (63 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | -6 | -4 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 13 | 5 | -2 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 81 | 61 | 71 | 96 | 98 | 102 | 106 | 114 | 97 | 108 | 90 | 85 |
August is the wettest month (114 mm) and February the driest (61 mm). From -6 °C in January to 27 °C in July: that is the range of daytime highs. The climate in Rawdon →
Beaches
Rawdon has 5 beaches close by
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Plage Municipale De Rawdonin town
DirectionsAdd 4 unnamed beaches to the count. Canada publishes no open register of beach water tests; the local public health unit posts swimming advisories.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
Rawdon has 11 viewpoints and 4 waterfalls nearby
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The most common are viewpoints: 11 on the map. For a climb, Mont Pontbriand rises to 337 m.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 11
Grand marais0.1 km from town
DirectionsBarrage de castor1.2 km from town
DirectionsLac à Moisan1.4 km from town
DirectionsGrotte1.4 km from town
DirectionsGloriette1.6 km from town
DirectionsPresqu'île1.6 km from town
DirectionsPlus 5 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 9
Mont Loyalin town
DirectionsMont Pontbriand337 m · in town
DirectionsMont Snow300 m · in town
DirectionsSommet 1270 m · in town
DirectionsSommet 2265 m · in town
DirectionsMont Aquilon0.9 km from town
DirectionsMontagne à Miron1.8 km from town
DirectionsPlus 2 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Waterfalls 4
Seuil IV (Rapides Patrick)1.9 km from town
DirectionsPlus 3 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 2
Beauréal Réserve naturelle1.3 km from town
DirectionsParc régional de Kilkenny1.6 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 5
Camping Parc Ensoleilléin town
DirectionsCamping Québécampin town
DirectionsCamping sauvage Domaine Kalinain town
DirectionsCamping Shamrockin town
DirectionsDomaine La fierté0.4 km from town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Rawdon
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Sainte-JulienneSainte-Marcelline-de-KildareChertseySaint-AlexisSaint-Alphonse-RodriguezSaint-LiguoriRawdon
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rawdon | 1.7% | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| Sainte-Julienne 9.7 km | 0.2% | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 12 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Chertsey 13 km | 6.5% | 16 | 0 | 7 |
| Saint-Alexis 13 km | 0.3% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 13 km | 0.9% | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| Saint-Liguori 14 km | 0.2% | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Around Chertsey the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Beaches. A beach counts when its centre point lies within 5 km of the town’s outline. Names come from the map.
- Private land. Areas held by land trusts or private owners stay unnamed here, though they count in the shares.
- 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. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- 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 Rawdon
How far is Rawdon from a national park?
La Mauricie National Park is closest, at 79 km.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Rawdon?
On the normals, May to July and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Which is the biggest protected area near Rawdon?
Proposed Station-de-biologie-des-Laurentides Biodiversity Reserve: 2,963 ha, a nature reserve.
Is there a beach near Rawdon?
The nearest is Plage Municipale De Rawdon, in town.
Is there protected land near Rawdon?
Protected areas cover 1.7% of the land within 10 km.
What is the nearest provincial park to Rawdon?
Mont-Tremblant National Park (Québec), 30 km from the edge of town.
Sources
Where Rawdon’s outdoors figures come from
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).