When I think about National Parks I picture the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and Lassen National Park in the US - as they are parks I'm very familiar with. The Smokies are one of the most-visited National Parks in the USA and while not many people visit Lassen each year it is amazing (it is where I met my husband, so of course, I love it!) But there is a National Park in Canada which is so remote it is rarely visited - it is Tuktut Nogait National Park and I'm writing about it today.
- Tuktut Nogait National Park is located 170 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, its name means "young caribou" in Inuvialuktun.
- It is one of North America's most remote and least-visited National Parks.
- Tuktut Nogait National Park is named after the Bluenose West caribou which are born here when the migratory herd returns to its calving grounds each spring.
- A wide variety of mammals are found in the park, including caribou, muskoxen, grizzly bears, wolves, red foxes, wolverines, arctic ground squirrels, and collared lemmings.
- Tuktut Nogait is a major breeding and nesting ground for a wide variety of migratory birds. Raptors such as peregrine falcons, rough legged hawks, gyrfalcons, and golden eagles nest along the steep walls of the river canyons. Other notable bird species include: tundra swans, sandhill cranes, lapland longspurs, horned larks, jaegers, golden plovers, and both arctic and red throated loons.
You will find my full post about Tuktut Nogait National Park at this link.
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