Canadian National Parks

Canada's National Parks and National Park Reserves are located within Canada's boundaries and protected through Federal legislation. Activities such as mining, forestry, agriculture and hunting are prohibited. Year round recreational activities include wildlife viewing, birding, hiking, guided tours, wilderness camping, skiing and canoeing allowing visitors to enjoy Canada's nature to its fullest.

Banff National Park
Banff National Park is Canada's first national park. Covering 6,641 square kilometres of valleys, mountains, glaciers, forests, meadows and rivers. Featuring a large variety of wildlife, floral, fauna and outdoor adventures suitable for all ages.

Dinosaur Provincial Park Dinosaur Valley
Travel back 75 million-year when this region was then a subtropical paradise populated by turtles, crocodiles and sharks and where dinosaurs once roamed and eventually died leaving amazingly rich fossil records.

Elk Island National Park of Canada
The wilderness consists of Aspen parkland, one of the most endangered habitats in Canada and a home to herds of free roaming plains bison, wood bison, moose, deer, elk and a large variety of birds.

Jasper National Park
The most northerly Canadian rocky mountain national park part of a World Heritage Site. There are delicate and carefully protected ecosystems along with majestic rugged mountains. Experience Athabasca Glacier up close.

Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada
Captured within the Rocky Mountains and prairie grassland Waterton offers a variety of ecological regions. Combined with Montana's Glacier National Park to form the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre
A UNESCO World Heritage Site locate outside of Fort Macleod. Features the buffalo hunting culture of aboriginal peoples of the plains covering a 5,500 year time span.

Glacier National Park of Canada
Situated in the Columbia Mountains of BC. The unique stands of old growth cedar and hemlock is a critical habitat for threatened and endangered wildlife such as mountain caribou, mountain goat and grizzly bear. Enjoy the Rogers Pass National Historic site.

Gulf Islands National Park
Situated within the southern Gulf Islands on the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia. Newly created the park protects ocean environment plus Gulf Islands floral and fauna.

Kootenay National Park of Canada
Located in the south-western region of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. This is a park rich in variety of landscapes and ecology, from glacier peaks along the Continental Divide to semi-arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain Trench.

Mount Revelstoke National Park of Canada
Located within the Monashee Mountains and the Selkirk Mountains. Experience ice-clad peaks, dense old growth rainforest and alpine meadows.

Pacific Rim National Park Reserve of Canada
Situated on the West Coast of Vancouver Island facing the Pacific Ocean. Coastal rainforest gives way to diverse intertidal and subtidal areas. Fishing villages and campgrounds offer unique west coast experience.

Yoho National Park of Canada
A UNESCO World Heritage Site located within the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains region. Soaring mountain peaks and unique plant and animal communities. Combined with other Rocky Mountain Parks has created a World Heritage Site, one of the largest protected areas in the world.

Riding Mountain National Park of Canada
Part of the prairie landscape and Manitoba Escarpment, this park offers a wide variety of wildlife and vegetation areas. Visitors can enjoy the numerous hiking trails, and Agassiz Tower that overlooks a panoramic view of prairies.

Wapusk National Park of Canada
Situated in northern Manitoba featuring the Hudson James Bay lowlands. The park was created to protect one of the world's largest known polar bear maternity denning areas.

Fundy National Park of Canada
The last remaining wilderness in southern New Brunswick is dominated by the Caledonia Highlands conifers. The Bay of Fundy is renowned for its tides the highest in the world.

Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada
Situated in New Brunswick the park offers a mosaic of bogs, salt marshes, tidal rivers, freshwater systems, sheltered lagoons, and tall forests emphasizing the Maritime Plain Natural Region.

Gros Morne National Park of Canada
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Visitors can hike through wild, uninhabited mountains and camp by the sea. Boat tours will take you to the towering cliffs of a freshwater fjord carved out by glaciers or take in unique fishing villages.

Terra Nova National Park of Canada
Located within the Appalachian Mountains the rocky headlands provide shelter from storms of the Atlantic ocean. The parks landscape varies from the rugged cliffs and sheltered inlets of the coastal region to the forested hills, bogs and inland ponds.

Aulavik National Park of Canada Birds of Aulavik National Park
Aulavik “place where people travel” in Inuvialuktun. 12,000 square kilometres of arctic lowlands on the north end of Banks Island. Landscapes featuring river valleys, Artic Tundra, badlands, and coastlines.

Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada
A UNESCO's World Heritage situated within the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. The park encompasses the South Nahanni River, sulphur hot springs, alpine tundra, mountains and forests of spruce and aspen, are home to many species of birds fish and mammals.

Tuktut Nogait National Park of Canada
Located 170 kilometres north of the arctic circle with rolling tundra, northern rivers, and unique Artic wildlife and vegetation. Home to the Bluenose West caribou herd, wolves, grizzly bears, muskoxen, arctic char, and a large variety of birds.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada
Overlooking the headlands and cliffs of Cape Breton Highland. Famous home to the Cabot Trail. Enjoy spectacular scenery, wildlife and history that goes back to the last Ice Age.

Kejimkujik National Park of Canada
The only inland national park of Canada in the Maritimes. There are abundant lakes and rivers ideal for canoeing. The woodlands and rolling landscapes are home to a variety of wildlife and a variety of hiking trails.

Auyuittuq National Park of Canada
This spectacular park reserve is an arctic wilderness of jagged mountain peaks, deep valleys, steep-walled ocean fjords and eternal glacier ice. At the heart of the park is the massive Penny Ice Cap, whose radiating valley glaciers are still actively shaping the land.

Sirmilik National Park of Canada
Situated in the Northern Eastern Arctic Lowlands Natural Region and portions of the Lancaster Sound Marine Region. The park will comprise Bylot Island, Oliver Sound and Borden Peninsula.

Nunavut Parks
Contact the local Visitor Centre before you arrive, or when you get there, to make sure you have the brochures and publications you need.

Bruce Peninsula National Park of Canada
Situated in the heart of a World Biosphere Reserve on the waters of Georgian Bay. The massive, rugged cliffs of the park are inhabited by thousand year old cedar trees, rare alvars to dense forests and sparking lakes.

Georgian Bay Islands National Park of Canada
Beautiful islands that are accessible only by boat you will discover a variety of landscapes, habitats and the rugged landscape of the Canadian Shield.

Point Pelee National Park of Canada
Located south-east of Windsor, Ontario. World renowned for its spring and fall migration of birds and autumn monarch butterfly migration. The park offers an large variety of plants and animals in a wide range of habitats.

Pukaskwa National Park of Canada
Located on Lake Superior within the Canadian Shield and northern Ontario forests. This wilderness national park was created to protect an ecosystem that features boreal forest and Lake Superior shoreline.

Forillon National Park of Canada
Situated at the farthest reach of the Gaspé Peninsula. Covering a 244 km2 area of sea, cliffs and mountains. Featuring ten different rock formations, colonies of seabirds and plants.

La Mauricie National Park of Canada
Located in the heart of the Laurentians the chain of mountains flanking the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River.

Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada
Located along the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence consisting of limestone islands with spectacular natural carved monuments created through the wave actions of the sea.