First pick
Parc des Quatre-Vents
Park or garden
7.9 ha
0.8 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Hubert Figuière from Montréal, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
Outdoors in Saint-Rémi · parks, protected land & trails
No protected area lies within 10 km of Saint-Rémi
National parks are all over 100 km off. 33 km from town is Oka National Park (Québec), the nearest provincial park.
Protected land
0%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
0
within 10 km, 0 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
33 km
Oka National Park (Québec)
Against other towns
How Saint-Rémi 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. No letter: the outdoors is described for Canadian towns, not graded.
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-Rémi has the 3rd least protected land nearby of 40 towns its size
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (9,325 to 9,787 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-Rémi0%
Towns its size2.8%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Saint-Rémi0
Towns its size4
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Saint-Rémi0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Saint-Rémi is weakest for public protected areas: 36 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Pêche QC | 19% | 8.3% | 33 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Revelstoke BC | 16% | 0.3% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Mount Royale NS | 15% | 24% | 18 | 5 | 14 |
| 4 | Lac-Deschênes QC | 14% | 49% | 32 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Manor Park ON | 11% | 4.1% | 41 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Antigonish County, Subdivision A NS | 11% | 9.3% | 128 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Oromocto NB | 6.6% | 3.8% | 19 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | Castlegar BC | 6% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Strathcona ON | 6% | 13% | 26 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Lakelands Village ON | 5.2% | 0% | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Sulphur Springs ON | 5.1% | 36% | 20 | 3 | 1 |
| 12 | Otterburn Park QC | 5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Silverado AB | 4.7% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 14 | Qualicum Beach BC | 4.4% | 1.2% | 24 | 0 | 7 |
| 15 | Glastonbury AB | 4.2% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Charlesbourg QC | 3.9% | 0% | 17 | 1 | 6 |
| 17 | Northeast SK | 3.7% | 0% | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge SK | 3.6% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Thistletown-Beaumond Heights ON | 3.2% | 0% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Shawnessy AB | 3.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 21 | Richmond ON | 2.5% | 0.2% | 17 | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | Laurentian Valley ON | 2.4% | 0.9% | 21 | 0 | 3 |
| 23 | Danforth ON | 2.3% | 0% | 13 | 4 | 24 |
| 24 | Elms-Old Rexdale ON | 1.9% | 0% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | North London ON | 1.9% | 0% | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | Steeles Corners ON | 1.8% | 0% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Lorraine QC | 1.6% | 0.2% | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Avalon SK | 1.6% | 0.7% | 21 | 0 | 1 |
| 29 | Daniel McIntyre MB | 1.5% | 0% | 21 | 4 | 0 |
| 30 | Stoney Creek ON | 1.3% | 0% | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | Notre-Dame-des-Prairies QC | 1.2% | 0% | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Willowgrove SK | 0.8% | 0% | 9 | 1 | 2 |
| 33 | Thamesford ON | 0.5% | 0.4% | 15 | 4 | 0 |
| 34 | Rustic ON | 0.3% | 0% | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | Aspen Woods AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Plympton-Wyoming ON | 0.2% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | Silver Berry AB | 0.2% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 | Saint-Rémi QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Coaldale AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Olds AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Saint-Rémi 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 Saint-Rémi: 8 named parks and woods
The biggest is Parc des Quatre-Vents, 7.9 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
8 named parks and woods, 15 ha in all
Parks & gardens 15 ha
Two places, Parc des Quatre-Vents and Arboretum, make up 74% of the total.
Parc Jean-Paul-Ferdais
Park or garden
1.0 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Centre d'interprétation de la nature
Park or garden
1.1 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Rémi
Directionsto a point inside
Parc ornemental de l'Église
Park or garden
0.4 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Rémi
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
4 in 10 people in Saint-Rémi live near 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 (35%)Further (65%)
Saint-Rémi35%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
About 6,200 residents live further than 400 m from one. In the typical Canadian town the share is 83%, higher than here.
Protected areas
Within 10 km of Saint-Rémi, no land is protected
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Oka National Park (Québec), 33 km away, is the closest provincial park.
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
33 km to Oka National Park (Québec)
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)
Oka National Park (Québec)
33 km north-west24 km²since 1990
For a national park, people in Saint-Rémi 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
Paths to walk: 8 km in and around Saint-Rémi
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
7.7 km
in and around the town (123.5 km²)
Woodland
13%
about 15.7 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Saint-RémiTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-RémiTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
For path density, 91% of Canadian towns do better. It is more wooded than 57% 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-Rémi
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
Walking season in Saint-Rémi: May to September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Montreal Trudeau (Airport), 25 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 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | -4 | -3 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 25 | 21 | 14 | 6 | -1 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 86 | 66 | 77 | 90 | 86 | 84 | 91 | 94 | 89 | 103 | 84 | 92 |
Some 217 cm of snow falls each winter. Summer highs reach 27 °C in July; in January they stay near -4 °C. Most rain and snow falls in October, 103 mm; February sees 66 mm. The climate in Saint-Rémi →
Things to do
Near Saint-Rémi: 13 outdoor spots on the map
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The map shows 12 playgrounds, ahead of the rest.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 12
Plus 12 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 Saint-Rémi
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Saint-MichelSaint-IsidoreSaint-Urbain-PremierSaint-ÉdouardSaint-MathieuMercierSaint-Rémi
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Rémi | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Michel 4.3 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Isidore 5.3 km | 4.7% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier 9.1 km | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint-Édouard 9.4 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Saint-Mathieu 10 km | 2.4% | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Mercier 11 km | 15% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
Around Saint-Isidore, Saint-Mathieu and Mercier the protected share is at least double.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Private land. CPCAD includes conservation land held privately; the page counts it and leaves the names out.
- 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. A route counts when 300 m or more of it lies within 2 km of the town. Coverage of trails on OpenStreetMap varies by region.
Questions about the outdoors in Saint-Rémi
What is the nearest provincial park to Saint-Rémi?
Oka National Park (Québec), 33 km away.
When should you visit Saint-Rémi for the outdoors?
May to September: long days, mild highs and little rain.
What is the nearest national park to Saint-Rémi?
The nearest national park is more than 100 km from Saint-Rémi.
Sources
Where Saint-Rémi’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).