Added on March 26, 2008 and filed under National Parks, Natural Environments, Newfoundland & Labrador
Gros Morne National Park of Canada was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is an area of amazing natural beauty with a broad variety of scenery, wildlife, and recreational activities. Visitors can hike through wild, uninhabited mountains and camp by the sea. Boat tours bring visitors under the towering cliffs of a [...]
Added on December 26, 2007 and filed under Natural Environments, Ontario
Giant sand dunes and golden beaches form two of the largest freshwater baymouth sandbars in the world here, on the shores of Lake Ontario. The extraordinary efforts to stabilize shifting sands disturbed by farming have revived distinctive dune plants such as bluets, butterfly weed and sand spurge. Some trails feature dune stairs to protect this [...]