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Algonquin Provincial Park
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario's oldest (1893) and third largest provincial park, about 763,000–772,000 ha, a Natural Environment park with 2,000+ km of canoe routes, ongoing logging, and private cottage tenure.
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park is a wilderness park in northern Saskatchewan, protecting Canada's largest active sand dunes, the most northerly in the world, and endemic plants.
Banff National Park
Banff National Park, Canada's first national park (1885 hot springs reserve, 1887 Rocky Mountains Park Act), is a Rocky Mountain protected area in Alberta, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site, with 4.5 million 2025 visitors.
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984, criteria vii-viii) in Alberta and British Columbia, combining Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks with Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, 2,360,000 ha including the Burgess Shale fossil site.
Canol Heritage Trail
Canol Heritage Trail: 371 km backcountry route in the NWT Mackenzie Mountains, following the abandoned WWII Canol Road and pipeline from Norman Wells toward the Yukon border; set to become Doi T'oh Territorial Park.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Alberta's badlands, 48 km northeast of Brooks, preserving Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils of the Dinosaur Park Formation, 75-77 million years old.
Elk Island National Park
Elk Island National Park: fully fenced Canadian national park in the Beaver Hills, 48 km east of Edmonton. Founded 1906 as Canada's first wildlife refuge; seed herd site for plains and wood bison conservation.
Five Islands, Nova Scotia
Five Islands, Nova Scotia: community and provincial park on the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, 24 km east of Parrsboro, with 90 m sea cliffs, the world's highest tides, Triassic-Jurassic geology, and about 92 campsites.
Florencia Beach
Florencia Beach, also called Florencia Bay or Wreck Beach, is a 5 km surf beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada, with A-frame beach-break waves, northeast offshore winds, cold water, and access via the Willowbrae and Nuu-chah-nulth trails.
Fortress of Louisbourg
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site: Parks Canada reconstruction in Nova Scotia of a French fortified town founded 1713, captured by Britain in 1745 and 1758, demolished, and partly rebuilt from 1961 as North America's largest historical reconstruction.
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Garibaldi Provincial Park, established 1927, is a 188,667 ha wilderness park in the Coast Mountains 64 km north of Vancouver, centered on 2,678 m Mount Garibaldi, with five Highway 99 trailheads, over 90 km of trails, and reservation-only backcountry camping.
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park, a 180,500-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site on Newfoundland's west coast, exposes the Earth's mantle at the Tablelands, features Gros Morne Mountain (806 m) and Western Brook Pond fjord, and hosts seven enclave communities.
Hatley Park National Historic Site
Hatley Park National Historic Site, Colwood, British Columbia: 228.84-hectare Edwardian estate with Hatley Castle (1908-09, Samuel Maclure), built for James Dunsmuir, later Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University.
Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park
Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie, a 224.7 km² Quebec national park in Charlevoix created in 2000, protecting deep valleys of the Malbaie River with the 800 m Acropole des Draveurs rock face.
Hopewell Rocks
Hopewell Rocks (flowerpot rocks) are over twenty sea stacks at Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, carved by Bay of Fundy tides; walkable ocean floor at low tide, kayaking at high tide, in a provincial park.
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park (Kugluk, Inuinnaqtun for white water) is a Nunavut park 13 km south of Kugluktuk on the Coppermine River, protecting Bloody Falls, a 1978 national historic site with 3,000-plus years of Pre-Dorset, Thule, and Inuit archaeology.
Lake Louise, Alberta
Lake Louise, Alberta: glacial lake in Banff National Park, 55 km west of Banff, turquoise from rock flour; discovered 1882 by Tom Wilson, renamed 1884 for Princess Louise; CPR resort from 1890; heavily managed for shuttle-based tourism.
McNabs Island
McNabs Island, largest island at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, part of McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park; Mi'kmaq, McNab family farming, and fortifications including Fort McNab National Historic Site.
Mont-Tremblant National Park
Mont-Tremblant National Park (French: parc national du Mont-Tremblant) is a 1,510 km² park in Quebec's Laurentian highlands, created in 1895 as the first park in Quebec.
Nahanni National Park Reserve
Nahanni National Park Reserve (Nahʔą Dehé), Northwest Territories, Canada: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, expanded 2009 to about 30,000 km2, home of the South Nahanni River, Virginia Falls, and Canada's largest tufa mounds.
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a Parks Canada reserve on Vancouver Island's west coast in Nuu-chah-nulth territories, with three units: Long Beach, the West Coast Trail, and the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound.
Peace Arch Park
Peace Arch Park: international park straddling the US-Canada border at Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, jointly managed by Washington State Parks and BC Parks around the 67-foot Peace Arch dedicated in 1921 by Sam Hill to mark the Treaty of Ghent centennial.
Sable Island
Sable Island (Sable Island National Park Reserve) is a 42-km crescent of shifting sand 290 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's 43rd national park since 2013, known for wild horses, grey seals, and over 350 shipwrecks.
Saguenay Fjord National Park
Saguenay Fjord National Park (Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a Sépaq provincial park in Quebec, created in 1983, protecting both banks of the 100 km Saguenay Fjord across 328.6 km2, with hiking, sea kayaking, via ferrata, and beluga-focused marine protections.
The Bugaboos
The Bugaboos are granite spires over 3,000 m in the Purcell Mountains of southeast British Columbia, protected as Bugaboo Park since 1969/1995, famed for alpine rock climbing, the Conrad Kain Hut, and heli-skiing's birthplace.
Tombstone Territorial Park
Tombstone Territorial Park (Ddhäl Ch'èl Cha Nän, "ragged mountain land") is a 2,200 km² Yukon territorial park designated in 2004 under the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Final Agreement, bisected by the Dempster Highway and protecting permafrost landforms, wildlife and First Nations heritage.
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, Waterton-Glacier, WGIPP: transboundary protected area formed in 1932 from Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta) and Glacier National Park (Montana), the world's first International Peace Park and a 1995 UNESCO World Heritage Site of 457,614 ha.
Waterton Lakes National Park
Waterton Lakes National Park: national park in southwestern Alberta, Canada, established May 30, 1895 as a Dominion Forest Park; Canada's 4th national park, smallest in the Canadian Rockies at 505 sq km; part of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
Wells Gray Provincial Park
Wells Gray Provincial Park, established 1939 near Clearwater, BC, is a 519,357-hectare wilderness in the Cariboo Mountains known as Canada's Waterfalls Park, home to 141 m Helmcken Falls, Murtle Lake (North America's largest canoe-only lake), and the Clearwater River watershed.
West Coast Trail
The West Coast Trail (WCT) is a 75 km, 6-8 day backpacking route from Pachena Bay to Gordon River in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Vancouver Island. Formerly the Dominion Life Saving Trail, it has 100+ ladders, cable cars, tide-dependent sections, and a May 1-September 30 season.