Find your way.
We’ve put together some suggested routes that can help you on the way.
The routes are organized geographically and bundle together the parks that make the most sense. You can link up different routes if you want to expand a trip, and if you’re really enterprising you can work from coast to coast to coast!
We live in Calgary so the Mountain Parks are really easy for us to access and made a great first destination for this project. We suggest you start with with a Park near you to get the feel for what your visiting style is like. Once you have a few local Parks under your belt it’s a great time to expand your horizons.
We’ve put these routes together as suggestions of which parks can be visited at the same time. We live in Calgary and so most of the routes assume you’re starting there, if you’re starting from somewhere else then you may need to make adjustments. Some of the parks are all by themselves and so they get their own route. You could put Gwaii Hannas and Kluane together since they’re sort of in the same region, but it’s still a lot of driving in between! Access to Wapusk is from Churchill Manitoba, which itself is only accessible by plane or train.
There are 13 parks in the Arctic which are all fly in, I’ve grouped these together since they require special trip planning and logistics. The Arctic parks see very few visitors each year, you’ll need to have strong wilderness experience and all your logistics planned out to visit these parks.
Here are the routes we’ve put together to complete the journey of visiting all the Canadian national parks.
Mountain Parks
Parks in this route:
- Banff National Park
- Glacier National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Mount Revelstoke National Park
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- Yoho National Park
Pacific Parks
Parks in this route:
- Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
- Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Prairie Parks
Parks in this route:
- Elk Island National Park
- Grasslands National Park
- Prince Albert National Park
- Riding Mountain National Park
- Wapusk National Park*
*fly in access only
Eastern Parks
Parks in this route:
- Bruce Peninsula National Park
- Georgian Bay Islands National Park
- La Mauricie National Park
- Point Pelee National Park
- Pukaskwa National Park
- Rouge National Urban Park
- Thousand Islands National Park
Maritime Parks
Parks in this route:
- Cape Breton Highlands National Park
- Forillon National Park
- Fundy National Park
- Gros Morne National Park
- Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site
- Kouchibouguac National Park
- Prince Edward Island National Park
- Sable Island National Park Reserve
- Terra Nova National Park
- Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve
- Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve*
- Torngat Mountains National Park*
Northern Road Accessible Parks
Parks in this route:
- Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
- Kluane National Park and Reserve
- Wood Buffalo National Park
Arctic Parks
Parks in this route:
- Aulavik National Park
- Auyuittuq National Park
- Ivvavik National Park
- Nááts’ihch’oh National Park Reserve
- Nahanni National Park Reserve
- Qausuittuq National Park
- Quttinirpaaq National Park
- Sirmilik National Park
- Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve
- Tuktut Nogait National Park
- Ukkusiksalik National Park
- Vuntut National Park
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