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 / 54.06833; -119.73444
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. 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]

References[]

^ "Kakwa Wildland Fact Sheet" (PDF). Alberta Parks. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
^ "Alberta Parks infopage". Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
^ "Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park". Alberta Parks. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^ BC Parks page on Kakwa Provincial Park
^ Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park
^ Canadian parks and wilderness Society. "Kakwa". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-18.

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