First pick
Parc Richelieu
Park or garden
2.6 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.01.7%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval · parks, protected land & trails
Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec) is 11 km from Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
For a swim, Plage du Lac John is the nearest of 2 beaches within 5 km. 8.2 km out lies the largest, Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 325 ha. Within 100 km there is no national park.
Protected land
1.7%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
24
within 10 km, 9 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest provincial park
11 km
Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec)
Beaches
2
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
How Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval 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 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 areas9Areas within 10 km held by a government or an Indigenous nation
Walking routes0Named OpenStreetMap walking and hiking routes with 300 m+ within 2 km
Beaches2Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval has the 17th least protected land nearby of 40 towns its size
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (8,932 to 9,250 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
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval1.7%
Towns its size2.9%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval9
Towns its size4
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval0
Towns its size1
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval does best for public protected areas: 15 of the other 39 have more. It trails them for walking routes, where 20 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chelsea QC | 27% | 65% | 55 | 6 | 7 |
| 2 | Crescent Heights BC | 27% | 13% | 132 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Queenswood Heights ON | 14% | 0% | 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Braemar Park-Belair Heights-Copeland Park ON | 13% | 1.7% | 30 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Fall River NS | 11% | 2.9% | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Beaver Bank NS | 8.2% | 3.8% | 31 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Burnaby Mountain BC | 8.1% | 0% | 36 | 2 | 84 |
| 8 | Saint-Robert QC | 7.8% | 0% | 22 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Boischatel QC | 5.9% | 0% | 25 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | South Slope BC | 5.8% | 0% | 39 | 2 | 10 |
| 11 | Corktown ON | 5.6% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Grande Cache AB | 5.5% | 2.2% | 26 | 0 | 50 |
| 13 | H-Section (bramalea) ON | 5.5% | 0% | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Clayton Heights BC | 5.4% | 2.3% | 131 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | Saint-Apollinaire QC | 5.1% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Rosewood Park BC | 4.5% | 0% | 130 | 5 | 0 |
| 17 | Sundance AB | 3.3% | 34% | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| 18 | North Central SK | 3.2% | 0% | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 19 | Fish Creek Park AB | 3.2% | 53% | 4 | 0 | 20 |
| 20 | Riverbend AB | 3.1% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 21 | Fletchers Meadow South ON | 2.7% | 11% | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | Old East York ON | 2.4% | 4.6% | 13 | 3 | 15 |
| 23 | Stony Mountain MB | 2.3% | 2.3% | 12 | 4 | 1 |
| 24 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval QC | 1.7% | 0% | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 | Portugal Cove-St. Philip's NL | 1.5% | 0% | 3 | 2 | 35 |
| 26 | Kimberley BC | 1.5% | 1.2% | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Camrose County AB | 1.4% | 1.3% | 148 | 0 | 3 |
| 28 | Churchville ON | 1.2% | 2% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Hampton Village SK | 1.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 30 | Booth MB | 0.9% | 1% | 20 | 1 | 37 |
| 31 | University Heights Urban Centre SK | 0.9% | 0% | 12 | 1 | 3 |
| 32 | Barbertown ON | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Silver Springs AB | 0.8% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 34 | Kings County, Subdivision C NS | 0.6% | 0% | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | Hawkwood AB | 0.5% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 | La Salle MB | 0.4% | 0% | 25 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | Coaticook QC | 0.3% | 0% | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 38 | Kingsway South ON | 0.3% | 0% | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 39 | Marlborough AB | 0.3% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 40 | Mount Pleasant AB | 0.3% | 0% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
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
4 parks and woods to walk in, in or near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Parc Richelieu is the largest, at 2.6 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
4 named parks and woods, 11 ha in all
Parks & gardens 2.9 haWoods 8.1 ha
Two places, Plantation pin rouge and Parc Richelieu, make up 79% of the total.
Plantation pin rouge
Wood or forest · 270 m outside town
6.0 ha0.1 km of path
3.8 km southfrom the centre
Sentier des lièvres
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Les Fleurs du Golf
Park or garden
0.2 ha
2.4 km south-westfrom 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
Most of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is more than 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 (4.2%)Further (96%)
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval4.2%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
For comparison, the typical Canadian town has 83%. For about 8,700 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away.
Protected areas
Protected areas cover 1.7% of the land near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval0%
Within 10 km1.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public ownership covers 9 of the 24. At 325 ha, Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area is the largest. Another 15 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
Montmorency Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 146 ha · 7.3 km from the edge of town
L'Ange-Gardien Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 255 ha · 7.6 km from the edge of town
Île d'Orléans (Est du pont) Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 232 ha · 8.1 km from the edge of town
Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 325 ha · 8.2 km from the edge of town
Battures de Beauport Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 311 ha · 8.3 km from the edge of town
Île d'Orléans (Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans) Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 324 ha · 8.4 km from the edge of town
Batture des Îlets Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 68 ha · 8.8 km from the edge of town
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré O. Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 301 ha · 9.6 km from the edge of town
Battures de Beauport Water Fowl Gathering AreaWildlife area · 153 ha · 9.9 km from the edge of town
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
11 km to Jacques-Cartier 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)
Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec)
11 km north671 km²since 1981
No national park lies within 100 km of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval; 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.
Footpaths and woods
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval and its edge hold 125 km of footpath
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
125 km
in and around the town (166.3 km²)
Woodland
93%
about 155.4 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Sainte-Brigitte-de-LavalTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.8
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Sainte-Brigitte-de-LavalTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland93%
0%50%100%
Woods cover more of it than in 100% of Canadian towns. Paths are thinner on the ground than in 61% 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 Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
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
May is the best month for walking in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Lauzon, 22 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | -7 | -5 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 11 | 4 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 80 | 80 | 78 | 95 | 98 | 120 | 129 | 117 | 123 | 112 | 84 | 101 |
Rain peaks with the heat: 129 mm in July, against 78 mm in March. The warmest days come in July (25 °C highs), the coldest in January (-7 °C). Winter brings about 299 cm of snow. The climate in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval →
Beaches
The beach near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval: Plage du Lac John, 2.2 km away
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Plage du Lac Johnsand · 2.2 km from town
DirectionsUnnamed on the map: one more. Water quality isn’t shown: there’s no open national record of beach tests. Local health authorities post advisories.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval has 5 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.
There are 15 hills and peaks, more than of anything else. The highest named peak nearby is Mont du Lac-à-Thibault, at 790 m.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 5
Croix à Tremblayin town
DirectionsPoint de vue du villagein town
DirectionsPlus 3 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 15
Mont du Lac Turgeon770 m · in town
DirectionsMont du Lac-à-Thibault790 m · in town
DirectionsMont du Lac-de-Vase735 m · in town
DirectionsMont Rossignol665 m · in town
DirectionsMontagne à Deux Têtes624 m · in town
DirectionsMontagne à Tremblay581 m · in town
DirectionsMontagne Thomassin448 m · in town
DirectionsMont du Curé-Gravel642 m · 0.0 km from town
DirectionsPlus 7 hills and peaks without a name on the map.
Waterfalls 4
Plus 4 waterfalls without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 10
Plus 10 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Camping Domaine Rivière Montmorencyin town
DirectionsSource: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Lac-BeauportSainte-Thérèse-de-LisieuxChâteau-RicherBoischatelL'Ange-GardienStoneham-et-TewkesburySainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval | 1.7% | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| Lac-Beauport 10 km | 0.4% | 10 | 4 | 2 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux 11 km | 4% | 22 | 0 | 8 |
| Château-Richer 11 km | 12% | 38 | 0 | 2 |
| Boischatel 11 km | 5.9% | 25 | 0 | 6 |
| L'Ange-Gardien 12 km | 6.3% | 37 | 0 | 4 |
| Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury 12 km | 21% | 17 | 14 | 0 |
For protected land, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux, Château-Richer and Boischatel have twice as much or more. Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury has the most mapped walking routes nearby: 14.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
- Beaches. Beaches are OpenStreetMap’s, named or not; in the north many are unnamed shoreline imports.
- 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. Land owned by individuals, companies or conservation groups counts toward the figures but is never named: a person’s land isn’t a place to visit.
Questions about the outdoors in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Where can you swim near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
Try Plage du Lac John, 2.2 km from town, first of several.
Are there protected areas near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
Yes: 1.7% of the land within 10 km is protected.
Is there a provincial park near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec), 11 km away.
What is the biggest park or reserve near Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, a wildlife area of 325 ha.
When should you visit Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval for the outdoors?
May: long days, mild highs and little rain.
What is the nearest national park to Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval?
None within 100 km of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval.
Sources
The sources behind Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval’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).