First pick
Parc du Bois-Brûlé
Park or garden
20 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
2.0 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0–Not graded
Outdoors in Saint-Charles-Borromée · parks, protected land & trails
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), 42 km away, is the closest provincial park to Saint-Charles-Borromée
Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. Close by: one protected area. 74 km separate the town from La Mauricie National Park, its nearest national park.
Protected land
0%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
1
within 10 km, 0 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
74 km
La Mauricie National Park
Nearest provincial park
42 km
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec)
Against other towns
How Saint-Charles-Borromée 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. Canada’s grades don’t include the outdoors, so this page compares the figures rather than grading them.
Protected within 10 km0%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 areas0Areas 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
Saint-Charles-Borromée sits 3rd from last of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (16,400 to 17,391 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
Saint-Charles-Borromée0%
Towns its size3.3%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Saint-Charles-Borromée0
Towns its size8
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Saint-Charles-Borromée0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
For public protected areas, Saint-Charles-Borromée lags towns its size: 36 of 39 are ahead.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canmore AB | 90% | 57% | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| 2 | Sooke BC | 23% | 21% | 23 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Sunnyside BC | 19% | 1.9% | 127 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Tracadie NB | 13% | 9% | 54 | 0 | 27 |
| 5 | Greektown BC | 12% | 0% | 13 | 2 | 73 |
| 6 | Saint-Henri QC | 10% | 0% | 23 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Grandview BC | 10% | 3.9% | 170 | 7 | 1 |
| 8 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC | 8.4% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Surrey Centre BC | 8.2% | 1.3% | 190 | 6 | 0 |
| 10 | Elder Mills ON | 7.3% | 8% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Sturgeon Falls ON | 7.2% | 6.1% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | East Burnaby BC | 5.5% | 2.6% | 54 | 3 | 17 |
| 13 | Saint-Michel QC | 5.2% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 7 |
| 14 | Davie Village BC | 5.2% | 0% | 11 | 3 | 71 |
| 15 | Stayner ON | 5% | 3.6% | 46 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | Cap-Rouge QC | 4.7% | 0% | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 | Préfontaine QC | 4.5% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 3 |
| 18 | Saint-Basile-le-Grand QC | 4.3% | 0% | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Petite-Côte QC | 4% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Malvern West ON | 3.5% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Étienne Desmarteaux QC | 3.1% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Humbermede ON | 3% | 0% | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Kennedy Park ON | 2.4% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 8 |
| 24 | Saint-Édouard QC | 2.3% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | Danforth East York ON | 2.2% | 0% | 13 | 4 | 21 |
| 26 | Leaside-Bennington ON | 2.2% | 1% | 11 | 6 | 8 |
| 27 | Scarborough Village ON | 2.2% | 7% | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| 28 | Saint-Émile QC | 2% | 0% | 25 | 1 | 3 |
| 29 | Willowdale West ON | 1.6% | 0% | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Laurentian West ON | 1.5% | 5.8% | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | St.Andrew-Windfields ON | 1.4% | 2.3% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Smithville ON | 1.3% | 0% | 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | Yorkdale-Glen Park ON | 1.3% | 0% | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | Leduc County AB | 1.2% | 0.7% | 85 | 2 | 4 |
| 35 | La Visitation QC | 1.1% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Cowansville QC | 0.6% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | Summerside AB | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 38 | Saint-Charles-Borromée QC | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Strathmore AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Coventry Hills AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Where the green is in Saint-Charles-Borromée
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 Saint-Charles-Borromée: 20 named parks and woods
The biggest is Parc du Bois-Brûlé, 20 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
20 named parks and woods, 71 ha in all
Parks & gardens 71 ha
Add Parc du Bois-Brûlé to Parc Saint-Jean-Bosco and you have 47% of it.
Parc Saint-Jean-Bosco
Park or garden
14 ha0.5 km of path
1.7 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Casavant-Desrochers
Park or garden
6.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Charles-Borromée
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Bélair
Park or garden · 390 m outside town
3.6 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
2.8 km southfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Maison Antoine-Lacombe
Park or garden
1.7 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.0 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jeanne-Sauvé
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.5 km of path
1.8 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jean-Livernoche
Park or garden
2.1 ha0.4 km of path
1.1 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
All 20 named parks and green spaces
Parc du Bois-BrûléPark or garden · 20 ha · 2 km of path
DirectionsParc Saint-Jean-BoscoPark or garden · 14 ha · 0.5 km of path
DirectionsParc Casavant-DesrochersPark or garden · 6.5 ha
DirectionsParc Maria-GorettiPark or garden · 5.6 ha
DirectionsParc BélairPark or garden · 3.6 ha · 0.6 km of path · just outside town
DirectionsMaison Antoine-LacombePark or garden · 1.7 ha · 1 km of path
DirectionsParc Jeanne-SauvéPark or garden · 2.2 ha · 0.5 km of path
DirectionsParc Jean-LivernochePark or garden · 2.1 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsParc Émile-PrévostPark or garden · 2.6 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc Amable-ChalutPark or garden · 2.1 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc Étoile-du-NordPark or garden · 2.1 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc Arthur-NormandPark or garden · 2.0 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc du Docteur-Yvon-GauthierPark or garden · 1.4 ha · 0.3 km of path
DirectionsParc Paul-Émile-RobillardPark or garden · 1.3 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc d'AilleboustPark or garden · 1.2 ha
Directionsparc des JonquillesPark or garden · 1.0 ha
DirectionsParc Des PionniersPark or garden · 0.9 ha
DirectionsParc Jean-François-ArnaultPark or garden · 0.8 ha · just outside town
DirectionsParc OlivierPark or garden · 0.4 ha
DirectionsParc de BellefeuillePark or garden · 0.2 ha
DirectionsSource: 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 5 in 10 of Saint-Charles-Borromée’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 (54%)Further (46%)
Saint-Charles-Borromée54%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
That leaves about 7,800 people more than a short walk away. In the typical Canadian town the share is 83%, higher than here.
Protected areas
Saint-Charles-Borromée has 1 protected area within 10 km
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Saint-Charles-Borromée0%
Within 10 km0%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
It is private land, held by a landowner or a conservation group, so it is counted here but not named.
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
74 km to La Mauricie National Park
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)
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec)
42 km south8.1 km²since 1984
National park
La Mauricie National Park
74 km north-east536 km²since 1970
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), a provincial park, is nearer at 42 km. Despite the name, a Québec parc national is a provincial park.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
19 km of paths in and around Saint-Charles-Borromée
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
19 km
in and around the town (52.7 km²)
Woodland
24%
about 12.9 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Saint-Charles-BorroméeTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-Charles-BorroméeTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
It has fewer paths per km² than 70% of Canadian towns. It is more wooded than 70% 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.
Walking routes
No mapped walking route near Saint-Charles-Borromée
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.
When to get out
Walking season in Saint-Charles-Borromée: May to July and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Fleury (45 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 | 8.7 |
| 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 |
Snowfall averages 202 cm a year. Most rain and snow falls in August, 114 mm; February sees 61 mm. Daytime highs run from -6 °C in January up to 27 °C in July. The climate in Saint-Charles-Borromée →
Things to do
A waterfall near Saint-Charles-Borromée
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
There are 13 playgrounds, more than of anything else.
Every named place, with directions
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 13
Plus 13 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Plus 1 dog park without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Saint-Charles-Borromée
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Notre-Dame-des-PrairiesJolietteNotre-Dame-de-LourdesSaint-Ambroise-de-KildareSaint-PaulCrabtreeSaint-Charles-Borromée
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 2.6 km | 1.2% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Joliette 3.6 km | 1.2% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 4.6 km | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 6.3 km | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Paul 6.5 km | 2.4% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Crabtree 8.9 km | 0.1% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Around Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Joliette and Saint-Paul the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- Walking routes. Only named route relations count; a park’s own path network may not show unless it is mapped as a route.
- National and provincial parks. National parks are Parks Canada’s; provincial parks are the province’s or territory’s, Québec’s parcs nationaux among them.
- 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.
Questions about the outdoors in Saint-Charles-Borromée
When should you visit Saint-Charles-Borromée for the outdoors?
On the normals, May to July and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
What is the nearest provincial park to Saint-Charles-Borromée?
Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec), 42 km away.
Is Saint-Charles-Borromée near a national park?
La Mauricie National Park, 74 km from the edge of town.
Is there protected land near Saint-Charles-Borromée?
Yes: 0% of the land within 10 km is protected.
Sources
The sources behind Saint-Charles-Borromée’s outdoors figures
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).