Wood Buffalo National Park (Alberta/NWT)
Canada's Largest National Park
Free-roaming bison, whooping cranes, and one of the world's biggest dark skies.
At a glance · 5 reasons to go
Why Wood Buffalo National Park (Alberta/NWT).
Canada's largest national park (bigger than Switzerland).
Free-roaming wood bison herds.
Last natural nesting ground of whooping cranes.
The world's largest dark-sky preserve.
Vast boreal and salt-plain wilderness.
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Wood Buffalo is Canada's largest national park — a boreal wilderness bigger than Switzerland, home to free-roaming wood bison, the last wild whooping cranes, eerie salt plains, and the world's largest dark-sky preserve. Remote and humbling.
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Wood Buffalo National Park (Alberta/NWT)
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Reviewed: 2026-06-06
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