First pick
Parc des Générations
Park or garden
5.0 ha
Centralin the middle of Wickham
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Municipalité de Wickham · CC BY-SA 4.00.1%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Wickham · parks, protected land & trails
Yamaska National Park (Québec), 30 km away, is the closest provincial park to Wickham
One protected area is close by. 0.1% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). OpenStreetMap shows one beach within 5 km, without a name.
Protected land
0.1%
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
96 km
La Mauricie National Park
Nearest provincial park
30 km
Yamaska National Park (Québec)
Beaches
1
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Wickham beside other Canadian towns, figure by figure
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. There is no Outdoors grade for Canadian towns; the figures stand beside the country’s towns of 2,500+ without a letter.
Protected within 10 km0.1%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
Beaches1Beaches mapped on OpenStreetMap within 5 km
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
Towns its size
Wickham sits 6th from last of 40 towns its size for protected land around it
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (2,712 to 2,773 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
Wickham0.1%
Towns its size3.7%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Wickham0
Towns its size7
Towns in Quebec10
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Wickham0
Towns its size0
Towns in Quebec0
Typical Canadian town0
Against towns its size, Wickham is weakest for public protected areas: 35 of 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tofino BC | 41% | 21% | 14 | 0 | 34 |
| 2 | Victoria County, Subdivision A NS | 33% | 54% | 152 | 3 | 59 |
| 3 | Highlands BC | 24% | 41% | 40 | 0 | 18 |
| 4 | Waskaganish QC | 24% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Electoral Area E, Peace River BC | 19% | 24% | 25 | 2 | 103 |
| 6 | Holyrood NL | 19% | 3.2% | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel QC | 18% | 23% | 83 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Musquodoboit Harbour NS | 16% | 28% | 50 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Meadow Lake No. 588 SK | 13% | 15% | 25 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | Little Current ON | 13% | 10% | 36 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Waterridge Village ON | 11% | 9.2% | 39 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Maria QC | 9.5% | 1% | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Cultus Lake BC | 9.3% | 52% | 14 | 1 | 17 |
| 14 | Marritt ON | 7.2% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Freelton ON | 5.6% | 1.6% | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part ON | 5.1% | 4.9% | 81 | 0 | 28 |
| 17 | Front of Yonge ON | 4.9% | 6% | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Russell MB | 4.9% | 0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Vars ON | 3.8% | 1.4% | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Bonaventure QC | 3.7% | 1.5% | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 21 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse QC | 3.6% | 0% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Wakefield NB | 2.2% | 0.8% | 22 | 0 | 13 |
| 23 | Sussex NB | 2.1% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L NL | 1.9% | 0.2% | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | Woodcroft AB | 1.9% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Gore QC | 1.6% | 2.3% | 18 | 0 | 3 |
| 27 | Central River Heights MB | 1.5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Tuxedo Industrial MB | 1.4% | 0% | 25 | 0 | 36 |
| 29 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley BC | 1.1% | 3.5% | 28 | 3 | 6 |
| 30 | Upper Mount Royal AB | 0.8% | 0% | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Souris MB | 0.5% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Talbot-Grey MB | 0.5% | 0% | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Electoral Area I, Central Kootenay BC | 0.2% | 0.1% | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 34 | Rivergrove MB | 0.2% | 4.7% | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Wickham QC | 0.1% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Kameyosek AB | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 37 | Lee Ridge AB | 0.1% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 | Plessisville QC | 0% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 39 | Kuujjuaq QC | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 40 | Country Hills Village AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Where the green is in Wickham
Green space, woods, protected areas and footpaths in and around the town; tap a number for its park or wood.
Green: OpenStreetMap parks, gardens, playing fields and woods. Hatched: CPCAD protected areas.© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); CPCAD (OGL-Canada)
Places to walk
Walk in Wickham: 2 named parks and woods
The biggest is Parc des Générations, 5.0 ha. Biggest first, numbered as on the map.
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
A park is within a short walk for 2 in 10 in Wickham
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 (21%)Further (79%)
Wickham21%
Towns in Quebec52%
Typical Canadian town83%
The typical Canadian town reaches 83%. About 2,200 residents live further than 400 m from one.
Protected areas
1 protected area lies within 10 km of Wickham
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Wickham0%
Within 10 km0.1%
Towns in Quebec4.9%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
No public land here: the one area is private conservation land, counted but unnamed.
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 96 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)
Yamaska National Park (Québec)
30 km south13 km²since 1983
National park
La Mauricie National Park
96 km north536 km²since 1970
Nearer still is Yamaska National Park (Québec), a provincial park 30 km away. Note that Québec calls its provincial parks parcs nationaux; Sépaq manages them.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
Footpaths and woods
Wickham and its edge hold 14 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
14 km
in and around the town (146.5 km²)
Woodland
53%
about 77.8 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
WickhamTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WickhamTowns in QuebecTypical Canadian town
Woodland53%
0%50%100%
It is more wooded than 85% of Canadian towns. For path density, 86% of Canadian towns do better.
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 Wickham 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.
No walking route is mapped within 2 km of the town. Mapping of trails as routes varies a great deal across Canada.
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 Wickham: May, June, August and September
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Drummondville (14 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) | -5 | -3 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 13 | 6 | -1 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 90 | 66 | 66 | 79 | 91 | 102 | 109 | 99 | 94 | 100 | 80 | 95 |
July brings both the warmest days and the most rain (109 mm); February is driest (66 mm). From -5 °C in January to 26 °C in July: that is the range of daytime highs. The yearly snowfall is near 229 cm. The climate in Wickham →
Beaches
One unnamed beach near Wickham
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
Whether the water is fit for a swim isn’t in any open national dataset; public health posts the local advisories.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
Near Wickham: 6 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.
Top of the list: playgrounds, 6 of them.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 6
Plus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Wickham
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Saint-Théodore-d'ActonSaint-Germain-de-GranthamDrummondvilleSaint-EugèneActon ValeL'AvenirWickham
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham | 0.1% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton 7.7 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 11 km | 0.1% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Drummondville 13 km | 0.1% | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Saint-Eugène 14 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Acton Vale 14 km | 0% | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| L'Avenir 15 km | 0.1% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
For walking routes, Drummondville leads the area with 3. Around Wickham, nobody nearby has double its protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Walking routes. Routes are what OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have mapped as named walking or hiking routes; many good trails aren’t mapped that way.
- 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.
- 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.
- National and provincial parks. Distances run from the town’s edge to the park’s, so 0 km means they touch.
- Beaches. A beach counts when its centre point lies within 5 km of the town’s outline. Names come from the map.
Questions about the outdoors in Wickham
What is the nearest national park to Wickham?
It is La Mauricie National Park, 96 km off.
What is the best season to get outdoors in Wickham?
On the normals, May, June, August and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
What is the nearest provincial park to Wickham?
It is Yamaska National Park (Québec), 30 km away.
Where can you swim near Wickham?
One beach is mapped within 5 km, though without a name.
Is there protected land near Wickham?
Within 10 km, 0.1% of the land lies in protected areas.
Sources
Sources for this page on Wickham
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).