Hamilton Ontario is known as the city of waterfalls and perhaps one of the most stunning is Webster’s Falls. Located on the Niagara escarpment just above the town of Dundas, Webster’s Falls has become a very popular place with waterfall watchers, families, picnickers and anyone looking for a great day out.
This significant natural area contains [...]
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 February 26, 2008 and filed under National Parks, Saskatchewan
Grasslands, in the province of Saskatchewan, is the first national park of Canada to preserve a portion of the mixed prairie grasslands. Check out a prairie dog town or learn about how Sitting Bull took refuge here after the battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Guided hikes, interpretive trails, bird watching, and nature photography [...]
Added on December 26, 2007 and filed under National Parks, Natural Environments, Nova Scotia
Kejimkujik, the only inland national park of Canada in the Maritimes, features a variety lakes and rivers ideal for canoeing. The beautiful woodlands and gently rolling landscapes are home to a variety of wildlife. Visitors will find historic canoe routes, portages and many scenic hiking trails in the park.
Well know for its excellent canoe routes [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Nature Reserves, Yukon
A gem in the family of Parks Canada’s national treasures, Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada covers an area of 21,980 sq kms. It is a land of precipitous, high mountains, massive icefields and lush valleys that yield a huge variety of plant and wildlife species and provides for a host of outdoor activities. [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Natural Environments, New Brunswick
One of two wilderness Canadian national parks in New Brunswick, Kouchibouguac is an interesting mosaic of bogs, salt marshes, tidal rivers, sparkling freshwater systems, sheltered lagoons, abandoned fields and tall forests which characterizes the Maritime Plain Natural Region. Natural wonders abound in this Park that boasts the second largest tern colony in North America. As [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Nunavut
Sweeping glaciers and polar sea ice meet jagged mountains in Auyuittuq National Park of Canada. Established in 1976, Auyuittuq – an Inuktitut word meaning “land that never melts” – protects 19,089 sq kms of glacier-scoured terrain. Located in the most eastern Arctic, on southern Baffin Island, the park includes the highest peaks of the Canadian [...]
Added on and filed under Alberta, Historical Sites, National Parks
In the fall of 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) construction workers stumbled across a cave containing hot springs on the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. From that humble beginning was born Banff National Park, Canada’s first national park and the world’s third. Spanning over 6,641 sq kms (2,564 square miles) of valleys, mountains, [...]
Added on and filed under National Parks, Ontario, Waterways
In the heart of a World Biosphere Reserve, the ‘Bruce’ is a place of global significance. The massive, rugged cliffs of the park are inhabited by 1,000-year old cedar trees, overhanging the crystal clear waters of Ontario’s Georgian Bay. The park is comprised of an incredible array of habitats from rare alvars to dense forests [...]
Added on and filed under Alberta, National Parks, Nature Reserves
Located less than an hour away from the Alberta capital of Edmonton, Elk Island National Park of Canada protects the wilderness of the aspen parkland, one of the most endangered habitats in Canada. This beautiful oasis is home to herds of free roaming plains bison, wood bison, moose, deer, elk and more. Also boasting over [...]