Wood Buffalo National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site

Place: Wood Buffalo National Park

Weather: Mostly cloudy with shower developing, 52/64F

Route: From Edmonton 1,139 km North on AB-44 N, Bicentennial Highway/AB-88 N, AB-35 N, NT-5 N.

Significance: The name of the park comes from the fact that it has the world's largest herd of Wood Bison, which most people wouldn't be able to tell apart from the American Bison that you see in Yellowstone. The landscape has the "largest undisturbed grass and meadows left in the Americas" according to UNESCO. It is also the only breeding habitat for the endangered Whooping Crane. It is the largest national park in Canada - it would be the 42nd largest U.S. state at 17,300 square miles.

Websites: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Parks Canada.

Images:

Inland delta (from whc.unesco.org)

The namesake of the park (from insightguides.com)