Gulf Islands National Park
One of Canada’s newest national preserves, Gulf Islands National Park in B.C., spreads across its namesake chain of marvelous islands in the Salish Sea northeast of Victoria. The park encompasses...
View ArticleJasper National Park
Once upon a time, Jasper National Park’s Athabasca Glacier was one of North America’s roadside wonders: This arm of the vast Columbia Icefield stretched almost all the way down to Alberta’s Icefields...
View ArticleBanff National Park
Alberta’s Banff National Park holds one of the world’s most familiar and most photographed mountain views, that of Lake Louise with snowy peaks behind. An equally impressive view is just up the road...
View ArticleRiding Mountain National Park
A large escarpment rising above the Manitoba prairie holds Riding Mountain National Park, whose aspen parkland forest and clear freshwater lakes comprise a lovely landscape. Lakes entice swimmers,...
View ArticleGros Morne National Park
The mountains that comprise Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park represent the tectonic forces of continental drift, cut off from the mainland and eroded by time into a fantastic landscape that...
View ArticleFundy National Park
While the Bay of Fundy is famed for the world’s greatest tidal flux — 17 meters (55.8 feet) — it is also an exceptionally beautiful body of water on the Atlantic coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia....
View ArticleGwaii Haanas National Park
Gwaii Haanas National Park, one of Canada’s great treasures, encompasses the lower portion of Haida , the remote Pacific islands formerly known as the Queen Charlottes. Among the attractions in...
View ArticleWood Buffalo National Park
It takes two days of driving from Edmonton to reach Wood Buffalo National Park, which straddles Alberta and the Northwest Territories. This peaceful park’s aspen woodlands are home to one of the...
View ArticleAuyuittuq National Park
Preserving a spectacular section of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada’s Inuit territory, Auyuittuq National Park is a remote, windswept, scenic and unpeopled preserve to which a visit is a lifetime...
View ArticleKootenay National Park
One of the lesser-known parks in the Canadian Rockies, Kootenay National Park is the home of one of the most enticing visitor amenities in the region. Radium Hot Springs’ large pool allows hundreds of...
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