Cloud Lake Wilderness Area
44.7978° N, 64.8878° W
Cloud Lake Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 44.7978° N, 64.8878° W
Wilderness area, 164 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/cloud-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).
- Air Quality Health Index observations and forecasts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
Cloud Lake Wilderness Area is a 164 km² wilderness area beside Scrag Lake, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 1998.
25 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Frog Lake (2.38 km²).
- Area
- 164 km²
- Established
- 1998
- Named lakes
- 25
Conditions today
11 °C
Observed at Greenwood, as of 1:00 a.m. ADT
Tonight: Showers ending late this evening then clearing. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 early this evening then becoming west 20 near midnight. Low 8.
Weather: Greenwood (local forecast), as of 1:02 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:58 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:27 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:45 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:14 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:16 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:03 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
Air Quality Health Index
2 low risk
Kentville, as of 2:00 a.m. ADT
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In the park
The 12 largest of 25 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frog Lake | 2.38 km² |
| 2 | Cloud Lake | 2.24 km² |
| 3 | Shannon Lake | 1.16 km² |
| 4 | Spry Lake | 1.02 km² |
| 5 | Upper Sixty Lake | 0.61 km² |
| 6 | Birchbark Lake | 0.43 km² |
| 7 | Grassy Lake | 0.4 km² |
| 8 | Wamboldt Lake | 0.39 km² |
| 9 | Lunenburg Lake | 0.39 km² |
| 10 | Upper Thirty Lake | 0.37 km² |
| 11 | East Branch Lake | 0.28 km² |
| 12 | West Allen Lake | 0.2 km² |
Waterfalls
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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