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Wood Buffalo National Park

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Fort Smith is home to the Wood Buffalo National Park, which is the largest national park in Canada and the second-largest in the world.

It was established in 1922 to protect the world’s largest herd of free-roaming wood bison, currently estimated at more than 5,000.

Photo: Darren Roberts, NWT Tourism

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