Silver River Wilderness Area
44.2269° N, 65.8036° W
Park boundary and water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Silver River Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 44.2269° N, 65.8036° W
Wilderness area, 75 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/silver-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).
Silver River Wilderness Area is a 75 km² wilderness area beside Barrio Lake, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 2015.
13 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Barrio Lake (2 km²).
- Area
- 75 km²
- Established
- 2015
- Named lakes
- 13
Conditions today
11.9 °C
Observed at Brier Island, as of 4:00 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: Brier Island (local forecast), as of 4:08 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 7:01 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:30 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:49 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:18 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:20 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:07 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
The 12 largest of 13 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barrio Lake | 2 km² |
| 2 | Long Tusket Lake | 1.61 km² |
| 3 | Middle Carrying Road Lake | 0.78 km² |
| 4 | Langford Lake | 0.7 km² |
| 5 | Salmon Lake | 0.6 km² |
| 6 | Little Tusket Lake | 0.42 km² |
| 7 | North Carrying Road Lake | 0.34 km² |
| 8 | Lucky Lake | 0.29 km² |
| 9 | Colibri Lake | 0.26 km² |
| 10 | Little Barrio Lake | 0.2 km² |
| 11 | Harlow Lake | 0.19 km² |
| 12 | Tumbler Lake | 0.16 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, Nature Conservancy of Canada
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