Brief Description:
Canada's first national park is home to a variety of distinctive natural features and cultural and historical sites. Rugged mountains, glaciers, icefields, alpine meadows, beautiful blue cold-water lakes, mineral hot springs, deep canyons and hoodoos compose the natural landscape and habitat for a great variety of mammals such as elk, bighorn sheep, black and grizzly bear, and caribou. Banff National Park is part of the UNESCO Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site.

Source: Parks Canada