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All provinces and territories

Parks, trails and places to play across Canada

84,835 parks, trails and recreation facilities from open data across Canada, organized by province, municipality and type.

48 municipal atlases below

Sheet · Canada2,159 municipalities
1000 km

One circle per municipality with data, sized by the number of named places and coloured by its most common category.

Named places
84,835102,254 mapped features
Types of place
547 categories
Named trails
74,686 km18,513 trails
Municipalities
2,159

The mix

What Canada has

Named places in the open data by category and by the most common types. Select a type for the full list.

33% Parks23% Trails13% Community12% Sports10% Recreation
Recreation places in Canada by category
  • Parks and open space: 27,653
  • Trails and pathways: 19,107
  • Community activities: 11,376
  • Sports facilities: 10,152
  • Recreation facilities: 8,445
  • Miscellaneous: 855
Most common types of recreation place in Canada

Provinces

By province and territory

Coverage depends on what each government publishes as open data.

Recreation places by province and territory
Province or territoryNamed placesParksSportsRecreationTrail km
Ontario29,66210,0114,6973,54219,245
British Columbia16,6748,01374662036,052
Quebec14,5892,8011,3321,2425,851
Alberta12,8093,7851,5231,30410,968
Manitoba3,5561,226670713833
Nova Scotia3,4591,112567445480
New Brunswick1,682306195163343
Newfoundland and Labrador1,1101491573387
Saskatchewan1,0401583993230
Yukon17843414507
Northwest Territories60334621
Nunavut1414000
Prince Edward Island22000

City atlases

Municipal atlases

About the data

Coverage and dates

Open-data providers
143
Features mapped
102,254
File retrieved
2026-11-13

Places come from Open Database of Sports and Recreational Facilities (ODSRF), version 2.0, published by Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment). For Canada, the data were compiled from 143 open-data providers. Collected from municipal, provincial and federal open data portals, May 2025 – June 2026 (each record follows its source’s last update).

The database lists what governments publish, so coverage varies between municipalities and a place that is missing here may still exist. Unnamed features (for example individual courts or play structures without a name) are counted in the totals but do not get their own page. Status values such as “closed”, “planned” or “removed” were excluded. Nothing here confirms current opening hours, fees or condition.

Data file retrieved 2026-11-13. See sources and licences and methodology.