Kakwa Wildland Park
| Kakwa Wildland Park | |
|---|---|
| Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park | |
|
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area) | |
  Location of Kakwa Wildland Park in Alberta | |
| Location | Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada |
| Nearest city | Grande Cache |
| Coordinates | 54°04′06″N 119°44′04″W / 54.06833°N 119.73444°W |
| Area | 64,928 ha (160,440 acres) |
| 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.
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.[3][4]
It takes the name from Kakwa, the Cree word for porcupine.[5]
See also
- List of Alberta provincial parks
- Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park (Alberta-Saskatchewan)
References
- ↑ "Kakwa Wildland Fact Sheet" (PDF). Alberta Parks. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ↑ Alberta Parks infopage
- ↑ BC Parks page on Kakwa Provincial Park
- ↑ Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park
- ↑ Canadian parks and wilderness Society. "Kakwa". Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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