Thoughts From a "Lost Canadian" About Nahanni National Park Reserve

If your favorite National Parks include mountains, water falls, rivers, caves, and lots of nature, then Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territory is absolutely a place you want to visit!

• Nahanni National Park Reserve is the first natural World Heritage Site in Canada.
• The South Nahanni River flows for hundreds of kilometers, it cuts through four massive canyons (some reaching 1,000 meters deep) and is considered one of North America's premier whitewater destinations.
• The Cirque of the Unclimbables is renowned among world-class rock climbers, this area features sheer granite spires which challenge even the most experienced mountaineers.
• Nahanni National Park Reserve is also home to complex cave systems, hot springs, and Canada's largest tufa mounds.
• The vast 30,000-square-kilometer reserve—about the size of Belgium—is mostly untouched by roads or modern development. 
• Nahanni National Park Reserve is home to grizzly and black bears, wolves, moose, mountain caribou, and over 170 recorded bird species.
• The area is the traditional homeland of the Dene Indigenous people, with archaeological evidence of occupation dating back 10,000 years.
• The word "Nahanni" comes from their language, meaning "people of the west" or "river of the land of the Nahʔa".
• Nahanni National Park Reserve has an eerie, fabled history. Early gold rushes spawned tales of lost treasure, murder, and unsolved historical disappearances which earned parts of the reserve the nickname,"Valley of the Headless Men".
• Náįlįcho (Virginia Falls) the South Nahanni River surges over a drop twice the height of Niagara Falls. 

You will find out more about Nahanni National Park Reserve at this link.