Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park Explained

Kakwa Wildland Park
Alt Name:Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park
Iucn Category:Ib
Map:Canada Alberta
Map Alt:Location the park in west central Alberta, Canada
Relief:yes
Location:Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
Nearest City:Grande Cache
Coords:54.0683°N -119.7344°W
Area:64928ha
Established:1996[1]
Governing Body:Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation

Kakwa Wildland Park is a provincial park in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just east of the northern Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada,[2] immediately east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall.[3]

It adjoins Willmore Wilderness Park and British Columbia's Kakwa Provincial Park and Protected Area and together with them comprises the first interprovincial park shared between BC and Alberta.[4] [5]

It takes the name from Kakwa, the Cree word for porcupine.[6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kakwa Wildland Fact Sheet. Alberta Parks. Government of Alberta. 27 June 2016.
  2. Web site: Alberta Parks infopage . 2009-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090813002318/http://gateway.cd.gov.ab.ca/siteinformation.aspx?id=63 . 2009-08-13 . dead .
  3. Web site: Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park. Alberta Parks . 14 July 2017 .
  4. http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/kakwa/ BC Parks page on Kakwa Provincial Park
  5. http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/kakwa/kakwa_willmore2007.pdf Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park
  6. Web site: Kakwa. Canadian parks and wilderness Society. 2010-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725200812/http://cpawsnab.org/campaigns/NewAreas/the-rocky-mountain-foothills/endangered-forests-1/kakwa. 2011-07-25. dead.