First pick
Prime Ministers Park
Park or garden
28 ha0.4 km of path
1.3 km south-eastfrom the centre
Rotary Trail
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Padowntown · CC BY-SA 4.03.3%protected within 10 km
Outdoors in Prince Albert · parks, protected land & trails
Within 41 km of Prince Albert: Prince Albert National Park
The largest is Fish and Wildlife Development Fund: 126,136 ha, 1.7 km from the edge of town. OpenStreetMap shows 5 unnamed beaches within 5 km. Great Blue Heron Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 39 km.
Protected land
3.3%
of the land within 10 km
Typical Canadian town: 2.3%
Protected areas
30
within 10 km, 4 public
Typical Canadian town: 14
Nearest national park
41 km
Prince Albert National Park
Nearest provincial park
39 km
Great Blue Heron Provincial Park
Beaches
5
within 5 km (OpenStreetMap)
Against other towns
Prince Albert against 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 km3.3%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
Prince Albert has the 20th least protected land nearby of 40 towns its size
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (36,473 to 44,575 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
Prince Albert3.3%
Towns its size3.7%
Towns in Saskatchewan1.7%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Public protected areas
Prince Albert4
Towns its size13
Towns in Saskatchewan2
Typical Canadian town4
Walking routes
Prince Albert0
Towns its size0
Towns in Saskatchewan0
Typical Canadian town0
For public protected areas, Prince Albert lags towns its size: 28 of 39 are ahead.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pointe-Claire QC | 33% | 0.2% | 40 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Panorama Ridge BC | 23% | 13% | 181 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Strawberry Hill BC | 20% | 0.8% | 158 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Pierrefonds-Est QC | 18% | 3.1% | 40 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Port Moody BC | 16% | 23% | 48 | 5 | 102 |
| 6 | Sullivan BC | 15% | 5.6% | 190 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC | 14% | 0% | 27 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Sorel-Tracy QC | 12% | 0% | 75 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Penticton BC | 12% | 1% | 26 | 0 | 61 |
| 10 | Sainte-Dorothée QC | 12% | 3.7% | 45 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | West Kelowna BC | 12% | 2.7% | 29 | 1 | 40 |
| 12 | Rouyn-Noranda QC | 11% | 14% | 90 | 15 | 8 |
| 13 | Boucherville QC | 7.1% | 14% | 53 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Sunset BC | 6.9% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 9 |
| 15 | Anjou QC | 6.5% | 2.4% | 28 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Hagerman's Corners ON | 6.4% | 0% | 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Vellore ON | 5.1% | 1.8% | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Yaletown BC | 4.7% | 0% | 12 | 3 | 77 |
| 19 | Mount Pleasant BC | 4.2% | 0% | 12 | 4 | 73 |
| 20 | Duvernay QC | 4.1% | 1.2% | 56 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Prince Albert SK | 3.3% | 0% | 30 | 0 | 5 |
| 22 | Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf QC | 3.2% | 0% | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| 23 | Le Boisé Champêtre QC | 3.2% | 0% | 37 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | Spruce Grove AB | 3.1% | 0% | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Campbell River BC | 3% | 7.3% | 27 | 0 | 2 |
| 26 | Kensington-Cedar Cottage BC | 3% | 0% | 14 | 3 | 26 |
| 27 | Beverley Glen ON | 2.8% | 0% | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Metrotown BC | 2.5% | 0% | 21 | 3 | 6 |
| 29 | Malton ON | 2.4% | 0% | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | Cochrane AB | 2.3% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Sainte-Rose QC | 1.9% | 0.1% | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Laval-des-Rapides QC | 1.7% | 0.1% | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | East Gwillimbury ON | 0.8% | 0.6% | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 34 | Meadowvale ON | 0.8% | 0% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Orillia ON | 0.7% | 0.1% | 17 | 4 | 7 |
| 36 | Hurontario ON | 0.7% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Fort Erie ON | 0.5% | 0.1% | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 38 | Clarkson - Lorne Park ON | 0.1% | 1.5% | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 39 | Erin Mills ON | 0.1% | 0% | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Leduc AB | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The map
Parks, woods and paths around Prince Albert
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
7 named parks and woods to walk in near Prince Albert
Prime Ministers Park is the largest, at 28 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
7 named parks and woods, 152 ha in all
Parks & gardens 42 haWoods 111 ha
Add Bateman Island to Betts Island and you have 73% of it.
Kinsmen Park
Park or garden
9.9 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
0.8 km westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Highnoon Optimist Park
Park or garden
1.2 ha
1.8 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Kinsmen Skateboard & BMX Park
Park or garden
0.2 ha
1.2 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
8 in 10 people in Prince Albert 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 (79%)Further (21%)
Prince Albert79%
Towns in Saskatchewan97%
Typical Canadian town83%
The typical Canadian town does better, at 83%. About 9,000 residents live further than 400 m from one.
Protected areas
Around Prince Albert, protected areas make up 3.3%
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Inside Prince Albert0%
Within 10 km3.3%
Towns in Saskatchewan1.7%
Typical Canadian town2.3%
Of those 30, 4 are public and the remainder private. Fish and Wildlife Development Fund is the biggest, 126,136 ha. 26 more areas within 10 km are private land, held by landowners or conservation groups: counted here, not named.
Fish and Wildlife Development FundWildlife area · 126,136 ha · 1.7 km from the edge of town
Sturgeon River Recreation SiteProtected area · 89 ha · 4.1 km from the edge of town
2 areas recorded only by their type (provincial layers such as wildlife habitat areas) are 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
Parks around Prince Albert
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
Provincial park
Great Blue Heron Provincial Park
39 km north111 km²
National park
Prince Albert National Park
41 km north-west3,875 km²since 1927
Nearer still is Great Blue Heron Provincial Park, a provincial park 39 km away.
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: 35 km in and around Prince Albert
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
35 km
in and around the town (128.3 km²)
Woodland
43%
about 55.8 km² of mapped woods
Footpaths · km per km²
Prince AlbertTowns in SaskatchewanTypical Canadian town
Footpaths0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Prince AlbertTowns in SaskatchewanTypical Canadian town
Woodland43%
0%50%100%
More of it is wooded than in 81% of Canadian towns. For path density, 74% 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 mapped walking route near Prince Albert
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
No named route shows within 2 km of the town; volunteers map trails unevenly from one region to the next.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
When to get out
Get out in Prince Albert in May, August and September
Daylight at the town’s latitude and ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals (Prince Albert, 5.8 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) | 8.1 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | -12 | -8 | -1 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 9 | -2 | -9 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 19 | 12 | 15 | 28 | 43 | 86 | 77 | 50 | 42 | 30 | 16 | 16 |
Some 112 cm of snow falls each winter. Expect 86 mm in June, the wettest month, and 12 mm in February. Summer highs reach 24 °C in July; in January they stay near -12 °C. The climate in Prince Albert →
Beaches
5 unnamed beaches near Prince Albert
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
For water quality, look to the local health unit: no open beach-testing data covers Canada.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Things to do
Prince Albert has a viewpoint within 2 km
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
9 playgrounds top the list.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Nisbet Provincial Recreation Site0.2 km from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Next door
Next to Prince Albert
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
Prince Albert No. 461Buckland No. 491Prince Albert
Under 1%1–5%5–15%15–40%40%+
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Albert | 3.3% | 30 | 0 | 5 |
| Prince Albert No. 461 2.5 km | 3.8% | 39 | 0 | 13 |
| Buckland No. 491 7.5 km | 2% | 24 | 0 | 8 |
None of the places nearby has twice as much protected land around it as Prince Albert.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- National and provincial parks. A park at 0 km touches or overlaps the town’s outline; directions point from the town’s centre.
- Protected land. The share is of the land and water within 10 km of the town’s outline, from CPCAD’s mapped areas; marine areas count, so a coastal town can score high on water.
- 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.
- Beaches. The count includes unnamed stretches mapped as beach, which can make a lakeside town’s figure large.
- 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 Prince Albert
What is the best season to get outdoors in Prince Albert?
On the normals, May, August and September: that is when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light.
Which is the biggest protected area near Prince Albert?
It is Fish and Wildlife Development Fund, a wildlife area covering 126,136 ha.
How far is the nearest provincial park from Prince Albert?
The closest is Great Blue Heron Provincial Park, at 39 km.
Is Prince Albert near a national park?
The nearest is Prince Albert National Park, 41 km away.
Are there protected areas near Prince Albert?
Yes: 3.3% of the land within 10 km is protected.
What is the nearest beach to Prince Albert?
There are beaches within 5 km, none of them named.
Sources
Sources for this page on Prince Albert
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).