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Getting around Lac-Mégantic: walking and cycling times

à portée’s map shows the trip on foot and by bike from every populated block in Lac-Mégantic to the nearest grocery store, pharmacy, school, park and other everyday places. It is free, with no account.

residents in 2021
5,747
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
75%
typical walk to a grocery store
9 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
13th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Lac-Mégantic

Each block is coloured by the trip from it to the nearest place of the kind you pick, on foot or by bike. Move the map, or open it in à portée for any address and all 29 kinds of place.

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Getting around Lac-Mégantic

The share of Lac-Mégantic residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

PlaceOn footBy bike
Grocery store75%typical 9 min93%typical 4 min
Pharmacy29%typical 20 min87%typical 10 min
Park74%typical 8 min99%typical 4 min
Elementary school63%typical 13 min80%typical 6 min

Cycling follows the street network, hills included. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.

Lac-Mégantic in numbers

75% of Lac-Mégantic residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store57%75%83%94%9 min
Pharmacy18%29%51%91%20 min
Park60%74%88%98%8 min
Elementary school39%63%69%79%13 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceLac-MéganticQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store75%49%45%13th of 1,0005th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy29%49%51%491st of 1,000148th of 259 in Quebec
Park74%83%82%418th of 1,000123rd of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school63%53%55%112th of 1,00024th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Lac-Mégantic residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min75%
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Lac-Mégantic Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Lac-Mégantic in population, and the share of their residents within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store. Communities are 2021 census subdivisions (cities, towns, counties and other municipalities), compared within their municipal boundaries.

CommunityResidentsGrocery within 15 min
Peachland5,78915%
Verchères5,75927%
Lac-Mégantic5,74775%
Richelieu5,74233%
Lanark Highlands5,7375%

More places across the Le Granit RCM census division

The Le Granit RCM census division has 21,948 residents, 26% of them in Lac-Mégantic. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store34%
  • Café17%
  • Bakery10%
  • Library15%
  • Playground33%
  • Childcare13%
  • Community centre2%
  • Clinic11%

Shares of 2021 residents of populated census blocks, on foot along the street network. How the walking times are computed

Travel times are our best estimates from open data published October 8, 2026 and can contain errors. Walking and cycling times are rounded down, so “within 15 minutes” means under 16. Check before an important decision, and tell us if something looks wrong.

Questions

Is Lac-Mégantic walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Lac-Mégantic, 75% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Lac-Mégantic ranks 13th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Lac-Mégantic by bike?

By bike, 93% of Lac-Mégantic residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 87% a pharmacy, 99% a park and 80% an elementary school. On foot, 75% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 4 min by bike and 9 min on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Is Lac-Mégantic a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 75% of residents reach a grocery store, 29% a pharmacy, 74% a park and 63% an elementary school. These figures count each place separately; open the map to see how many residents have all four within 15 minutes, for the places you choose.

How does Lac-Mégantic compare with communities of a similar size?

In Lac-Mégantic, 75% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 15% in Peachland, 27% in Verchères, 33% in Richelieu and 5% in Lanark Highlands.

Where does this data come from?

Walking and cycling times follow the street network, hills included, from each populated 2021 census block to the nearest place of each kind. Places come from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, with health care and schools checked against Statistics Canada’s open databases. Shares are weighted by 2021 population. Data published 8 October 2026. How the times are computed

Lac-Mégantic in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Le Granit RCM
Census subdivision code
2430030
Residents in 2021
5,747
Data published
8 October 2026
Provinces: Natural Earth.

Elsewhere

Sources: places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the Overture Maps Foundation; census blocks, 2021 populations and municipal boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada under the Open Government Licence – Canada; elevation from Natural Resources Canada; province outlines from Natural Earth; links from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Figures derived from OpenStreetMap are under the ODbL. Data sources and licences

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