Wood Buffalo National Park

Fort Chipewyan | Alberta

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Fort Chip is the gateway to Wood Buffalo National Park, which can be reached only by water; it also sits at the western end of Lake Athabasca, where the Athabasca River ends, and evokes the feeling of being on the edge of the world.

It’s one of the biggest parks on the planet and home to free-ranging buffalo. Travellers might want to canoe to a backcountry campsite in search of wolves on the hunt for one of those buffalo.

Beautiful place not to be missed.

Photo: Dru!, flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

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