Explore Lorne, Nova Scotia, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lorne, Nova Scotia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Nova Scotia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Lorne and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Lorne.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Lorne |
| Type | Community |
| Province / Territory | Nova Scotia (NS) |
| Location | Pictou |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 45.426111 |
| Longitude | -62.709154 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | B2H |
| Area Code | 782, 902 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | CAVPB |
Lorne is a community in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Lorne is located at 45.4261°N, 62.7092°W.
Lorne rests within the quiet, elevated embrace of the Moiche Hill, where the land holds a stillness that seems to gather the light of late afternoon against its slopes. It lies 18.8 km south-south-west of New Glasgow, NS (from New Glasgow, NS: bearing 195°T), and is situated 5.9 km south of Hopewell. The terrain here possesses a sturdy, grounded quality, defined by the rise of the hill and the proximity of Grant Lake, which sits five kilometers away like a cool, silver eye in the landscape. When the sun dips low, the air takes on a crisp, heavy clarity, casting long shadows that stretch across the fields and woodlots. The East River of Pictou traces a winding path through the wider region about six kilometers distant, acting as a slow, rhythmic pulse for the surrounding geography. Even the atmosphere at Salt Springs Provincial Park, eighteen kilometers out, shares this same temperate, wooded character that defines the world around Lorne. The history of Lorne reflects the persistent labor of those who first cleared these hills, turning the dense forest into land suitable for sustenance and small-scale industry. Life in Lorne moves with a deliberate weight, grounded in the seasonal turns of agriculture and the maintenance of the homesteads that dot the higher ground. While the demands of modern industry have shifted the focus of the local economy, the connection to the land remains the primary inheritance for those residing on the Moiche Hill. Neighbors here mark the passage of time through the cycles of the harvest and the maintenance of the rural roads, finding a particular beauty in the enduring, unadorned nature of their daily work. It is a quiet existence, marked by the steady, unsentimental endurance of a place that values the shelter of the hills above all else.
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Explore Lorne, Nova Scotia, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 45.426111, -62.709154. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Lorne includes the postal code (B2H), telephone area code (782, 902). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Lorne is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |