Medway Lakes Wilderness Area
44.5697° N, 65.1799° W
Medway Lakes Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 44.5697° N, 65.1799° W
Wilderness area, 200 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/medway-lakes-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).
Medway Lakes Wilderness Area is a 200 km² wilderness area beside Long Lake, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 2015.
34 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Fisher Lake (7.67 km²).
- Area
- 200 km²
- Established
- 2015
- Named lakes
- 34
Conditions today
6.8 °C
Observed at Kejimkujik (National Park), as of 6:00 a.m. ADT
Today: Sunny this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of showers this afternoon. Wind west 20 km/h becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 near noon. High 17. UV index 3 or moderate.
Weather: Kejimkujik (National Park) (local forecast), as of 6:00 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:59 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:28 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:46 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:15 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:18 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:04 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
The 12 largest of 34 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fisher Lake | 7.67 km² |
| 2 | Alma Lake | 2.79 km² |
| 3 | Croker Lakes | 1.33 km² |
| 4 | Long Lake | 1.3 km² |
| 5 | Frog Lake | 1.12 km² |
| 6 | Rocky Lake | 0.94 km² |
| 7 | Medway Lake | 0.9 km² |
| 8 | Gull Lake | 0.81 km² |
| 9 | Elder Lake | 0.79 km² |
| 10 | George Lake | 0.78 km² |
| 11 | Allison Lake | 0.76 km² |
| 12 | Bear Lake | 0.61 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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