Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park

54°04′06″N 119°44′04″W / 54.06833°N 119.73444°W / 54.06833; -119.73444Area64,928 ha (160,440 acres)Established1996[1]Governing bodyAlberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation

Kakwa Wildland Park is a provincial park in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just east of the northern Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada,[2] immediately east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall.[3]

It adjoins Willmore Wilderness Park and British Columbia's Kakwa Provincial Park and Protected Area and together with them comprises the first interprovincial park shared between BC and Alberta.[4][5]

It takes the name from Kakwa, the Cree word for porcupine.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kakwa Wildland Fact Sheet" (PDF). Alberta Parks. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Alberta Parks infopage". Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  3. ^ "Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park". Alberta Parks. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  4. ^ BC Parks page on Kakwa Provincial Park
  5. ^ Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park
  6. ^ Canadian parks and wilderness Society. "Kakwa". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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