Tidney River Wilderness Area
43.9802° N, 65.1047° W
Tidney River Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 43.9802° N, 65.1047° W
Wilderness area, 228 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/tidney-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.
- 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).
Tidney River Wilderness Area is a 228 km² wilderness area 1.9 km northwest of Sable River, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 1998.
8 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Broad River Lake (2.58 km²).
- Area
- 228 km²
- Established
- 1998
- Named lakes
- 8
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
- 6:58 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:27 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:46 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:15 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:17 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:04 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broad River Lake | 2.58 km² |
| 2 | First Lake | 1.22 km² |
| 3 | Second Lake | 1.07 km² |
| 4 | Tidney Lake | 0.87 km² |
| 5 | Southwest Lake | 0.67 km² |
| 6 | Northeast Lake | 0.65 km² |
| 7 | Second Lake | 0.6 km² |
| 8 | Little Lake | 0.14 km² |
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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