Roseway River Wilderness Area
43.8912° N, 65.4169° W
Roseway River Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 43.8912° N, 65.4169° W
Wilderness area, 16.9 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/roseway-river-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).
Roseway River Wilderness Area is a 16.9 km² wilderness area 1 km northwest of Lower Ohio, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 2015.
3 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Deception Lake (2.83 km²).
- Area
- 16.9 km²
- Established
- 2015
- Named lakes
- 3
Conditions today
9.1 °C
Observed at Shelburne, as of 1:00 a.m. ADT
Tonight: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight. Clearing overnight. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 early this evening then becoming west 20 near midnight. Low 9.
Weather: Shelburne (local forecast), as of 1:05 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 7:00 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:28 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:48 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:17 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:18 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:05 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deception Lake | 2.83 km² |
| 2 | McKay Lakes | 1.02 km² |
| 3 | Beaverdam Lake | 0.15 km² |
Waterfalls
Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.
Official record
- Designation
- Wilderness area
- IUCN category
- IV, Habitat/species management areaInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
- Managed by
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
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