Boggy Lake Wilderness Area
45.0948° N, 62.3155° W
Boggy Lake Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 45.0948° N, 62.3155° W
Wilderness area, 46.8 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/boggy-lake-wilderness-area/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
Boggy Lake Wilderness Area is a 46.8 km² wilderness area 5.4 km west of New Chester, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 1998.
15 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Boggy Lake (1.17 km²).
- Area
- 46.8 km²
- Established
- 1998
- Named lakes
- 15
Conditions today
12.8 °C
Observed at Malay Falls, as of 1:00 a.m. ADT
Tonight: Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers late this evening and after midnight. Clearing before morning. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 this evening then becoming west 20 overnight. Low 8.
Weather: Malay Falls (local forecast), as of 1:05 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:47 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:17 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:34 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:04 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:06 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:52 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
The 12 largest of 15 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boggy Lake | 1.17 km² |
| 2 | Melopseketch Lake | 1.11 km² |
| 3 | Long Lake | 0.7 km² |
| 4 | Round Lake | 0.63 km² |
| 5 | Bear Lake | 0.46 km² |
| 6 | George Lake | 0.39 km² |
| 7 | Square Lake | 0.32 km² |
| 8 | Middle Lake | 0.29 km² |
| 9 | South Arm Lake | 0.28 km² |
| 10 | Caribou Pond | 0.21 km² |
| 11 | Kindervater Lake | 0.18 km² |
| 12 | Chain Lakes | 0.15 km² |
Rivers
Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.
Official record
- Designation
- Wilderness area
- IUCN category
- Ib, Wilderness areaInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
- Managed by
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
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