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Mar 30, 2020 · The map below indicates the location of national parks and national park reserves in Canada. Click on individual points to learn a park’s name and the year it was established. Canada’s national parks and national park reserves are protected areas established under federal legislation.
Nov 23, 2015 · Our national parks protect and preserve those areas of natural beauty under federal legislation. They also tend to be BIG! So big, in fact, that the majority of them are larger than entire countries (Denmark, Switzerland, Armenia, El Salvador — we’re looking at you!). Here are 30 national parks that are larger than 30 individual nations.
Mar 16, 2023 · This story map points at all of Canada's National Parks. When the point of interest is chosen the name and description of the park shows up.
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As of 2019, Canada has 48 National Parks. Thirty-one of them have road-access. (You have to fly or boat into the others.) I’ve used Google maps to design a cross-Canada road trip that visits all 31 of those parks with the least amount of backtracking possible. In most places, the route stays close to the trans-Canada highway, so it’s easy to take s...
Here’s the custom google map of Canada’s National Parks I’ve made for you. Click to explore the map. The National Parks you can visit by car are in green. Parks you have to fly or boat into are in red. The blue line is the epic Canadian National Park road trip route.
Here’s a list of every single National Park in Canada visited on the road trip, in order from west to east. It also includes important cities and provincial capital cities. I’ve listed every National Park and city I have visited in bold. That means I’ve been to 17 of the 31 parks on this road trip already! Just 14 to go! 1. Victoria, British Columb...
While they are difficult to get to, and in many cases pretty expensive, I’d love to visit some of Canada’s more remote National Parks. Here are the other 17 National Parks that require charter flights or boats to reach. I’ve included info on their location and how to get there if you’re curious. Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Par...
Parks Canada’s website is your best source for up to date info on the parks. You can also buy National Parks passes online. For an extended trip, the best deal is the Discover Pass, which gets you...To help plan your trip (and get excited about what you’ll be seeing) the National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of Canada is a great choice. National Geographic also has a great bundle of...For general Canada travel advice, Lonely Planet’s Canada Travel Guideis great. We used an older version of this guide on our drives across Canada.- Wood Buffalo National Park, 44,741 km2. Straddling the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Wood Buffalo National Park is larger than Denmark.
- Quttinirpaaq National Park, 37,775 km2. First known as Ellesmere Island National Park, Quttinirpaaq (pronounced koo-tin-ir-pa-ak) is Canada’s most northerly national park and some of the most northerly land in North America.
- Sirmilik National Park, 22,252 km2. Sirmilik National Park comprises three separate land components in Nunavut: the land on either side of Oliver Sound, Bylot Island, and part of the Borden Peninsula.The park was first established as a bird sanctuary because of its impressive seabird colonies, including thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes.
- Ukkusiksalik National Park, 20,885 km2. Ukkusiksalik National Park surrounds a spectacular inland sea called Wager Bay, in Nunavut. The name Ukkusiksalik (pronounced Ooooo-koo-sik-sa-lik)in Inuktitut means “the place where soapstone to make pots and oil lamps is found.”
The system, which is 79 percent complete, represents the diversity of natural regions and landscapes in Canada. Forty-seven national parks represent 31 of Canada’s 39 terrestrial regions, and protect approximately 342,456 square kilometres of Canada’s lands.
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There are 37 national parks and 11 national park reserves in Canada that represent 31 of Canada's 39 terrestrial natural regions and protect approximately 343,377 square kilometers of lands in Canada.
