Jasper National Park

Fyatt Valley, Jasper National Park

Fyatt Valley, Jasper National Park

The Canadian Rockies largest national park

By Michele Kadison

Staff Writer
Rockies.com

JASPER NATIONAL PARK, Alberta (Rockies.com) – Jasper National Park, established in 1907, is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies with 10,878 square kilometres of mountain wilderness.

Jasper is the wildest of the mountain parksand contains a superb backcountry trail system as well as the world famous Columbia Icefields, one of the only icefields in the world accessible by road.

It is internationally-renowned for wildlife viewing, and is home to some of North America’s rarest animals, including healthy populations of grizzly bears, moose, caribou and wolves.