31 Mar 2012

Canada National Parks - Go Beyond Your Travel Expectations

Canada offers some of the best sceneries in the world. Most of them are reflected in the country’s numerous national parks that are well equipped and maintained to allow hiking, camping, skiing, and walking, among many more activities. If you are looking to visit Canada anytime soon, here are the top ten Canada National Parks worth visiting and looking into.

Banff National Park

The Banff National Park is a place that is teeming with wildlife like sheep, deer, coyotes, bears, and even elks. The Visitor Centre, open 365 days a year, have rangers that offer guided hikes and interpretive programs from the Tunnel Mountain Campground Theater.

Pacific Rim National Park
With a temperate climate that is helpful for the flourishing of rain forests, the Pacific Rim National Park offers a unique mixture of beaches and forests. The park’s beaches offers avenues for exploration with natural landscapes where indigenous people who once populated the area treaded.

Kootenay National Park
This park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site partly because of the amazing Radium Host Springs. Located in the Rocky Mountain region of British Columbia, the Kootenay National Park offers hot springs, glacier-covered mountains, and the popular Rocky Mountain Trench.

Kluane National Park and Reserve
The Kluane National Park and Reserve is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site with its stunning mountains, glaciers, and ice fields, to name a few. This is also home to the tallest mountain in the country, Mount Logan.

Wood Buffalo National Park
Canada’s largest park, the Wood Buffalo National Park is amazingly larger than the country of Switzerland. This park houses many rare and endangered species such as the wood bison and the whooping crane. It also has fascinating ecosystems and a rich Aboriginal culture.

Mingan Archipelago National Park
The Mingan National Park creates a stunning archipelago that is made up of about 30 natural limestone islands. Aside from these interesting formations, the park is also home to dolphins, seals, whales, and seabirds, to name a few.

Prince Edward Island National Park
This park gives a different take to the typical Canada Park. The Prince Edward Island National Park is not covered with the typical glaciers and ice fields. Instead, it has sand dunes, beaches, cliffs, forests, sandpits, and wetlands. It also offers a different ecosystem with unique animal and plant species.

Wapusk National Park
The Wapusk National Park is very popular for its polar bears. In fact, this park is one of the biggest lairs of polar bears in the world. Located in prairie province of Manitoba, this park is interestingly part forest and part tundra.

Pukaskwa National Park
Located on the shore of Lake Superior, the Pukaskwa National Park is the only wilderness park in the whole of Ontario. This park offers the perfect mix of a rugged nature park with stunning forest views, pristine lake waters, and the Canadian Shield.

Mount Revel stoke National Park
Anyone would be amazed by the amazing contrasts that the Mount Revel stoke National Park has to offer. It offers breathtaking views of rain forests teeming with cedar and pine along with sub alpine forests, alpine meadows, and tundra. It also has hiking trails through wetlands and forests.

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Amy C. is an adventure traveler. She enjoys writing about the best spots to experience nature in all its rawness and marvel. When she is not describing parks and forests, she helps in the blogging and administration activities of KB Accounting & Tax Services, a Phoenix Accountant and Phoenix Bookkeeper company. Watch out for her next installment on the best places to be one with the natural world.

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