Wood Buffalo National Park Tours

Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km². It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free-roaming wood bison. They became hybrid…
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km². It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free-roaming wood bison. They became hybridized after the introduction of plains bison. The population is currently estimated at 3,000. It is one of two known nesting sites of whooping cranes.
  • Location: Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada
  • Established: 1922
  • Nearest city: Fort Chipewyan · Fort Smith
  • Area: 44,741 km² (17,275 sq mi)
  • Visitors: 2399 (in 2022–23)
  • Governing body: Parks Canada
  • Criteria: Natural: vii, ix, x

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