Woodland Caribou Provincial Park
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park | |
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Location in Ontario | |
Location | Kenora District, Ontario, Canada |
Nearest city | Red Lake |
Coordinates | 50°59′55″N 94°45′01″W / 50.99861°N 94.75028°WCoordinates: 50°59′55″N 94°45′01″W / 50.99861°N 94.75028°W[1] |
Area | 4,500 km2 (1,700 sq mi) |
Established | 1983[2] |
Governing body | Ontario Parks |
World Heritage site | 2018[3] |
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a provincial park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, west of the municipality of Red Lake.[1][4][5] It borders Atikaki Provincial Park and Nopiming Provincial Park in eastern Manitoba,[4][5] and is made up of Canadian Shield and boreal forest. Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park of 450,000 hectares (1,100,000 acres), and it became part of the Pimachiowin Aki UNESCO World Heritage site in 2018.[3]
Access to the park is via float plane or canoe. The park is noted as a wilderness canoe destination, with over 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of waterways that weave a pattern between large interconnected lakes and rivers, including the Bloodvein River and the . Portages connect many of the common canoe routes. The park has many archaeological sites containing many Ojibway pictographs.
See also[]
- List of Ontario parks
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Woodland Caribou Provincial Park". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ "Woodland Caribou Provincial Park - Wilderness". Protected Planet. Archived from the original on 28 August 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Johnson, Rhiannon (2018-07-01). "Newest UNESCO World Heritage Site is boreal forest important to First Nations cultures". CBC News. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Toporama (on-line map and search)". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ontario Geonames GIS (on-line map and search)". Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. 2014. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
External links[]
- IUCN Category Ib
- Provincial parks in Ontario
- Parks in Kenora District
- Rock art in North America
- Petroglyphs in Canada
- Protected areas established in 1983
- 1983 establishments in Ontario
- Ontario geography stubs
- Canadian protected area stubs