9 Canadian National Parks That Are UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Gros Morne is host to a gargantuan panorama of natural wonder: high peaks and waterfalls, ocean viewscapes, a freshwater fjord sheltered by towering cliffs, sandy beaches, sea stacks, and sea caves.

Canada’s largest national park, Wood Buffalo is home to one of the world’s last remaining free-roaming wood bison herds, the nesting habitat for endangered whooping cranes, and the world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve.

One of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Banff is one of the world’s premier destinations, spanning a region of unparalleled majestic mountain scenery.

The largest national park in the Canadian Rockies group, Jasper's landscape covers an expansive region of rugged backcountry trails and mountainous terrain juxtaposed against fragile protected ecosystems as well as the world-renowned Columbia Icefield.

New growth has been allowed to occur naturally after major forest fires in the area, providing outstanding examples of ecological succession in Kootenay, another Canadian Rockies park.

The final Canadian Rocky Mountain Park, Yoho is known for its famous fossils, along with its big peaks, expansive glaciers, and impressive waterfalls.

Waterton Lakes forms an International Peace Park, the world's first, with Glacier National Park in the United States.

Kluane, combined with three adjacent parks—Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia and Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska—forms the largest international protected region in the world.

Nahanni is rich with legends of lost gold, murder, and headless men, along with airier lore of tropical gardens and Dene spirits that dwell in the vents of the river valley’s tufa mounds and hot springs.