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]