Thoughts From a "Lost Canadian" About Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve

One of the many things I'm learning about Canada's National Parks, is they have so many amazing, surprising, and unexpected things in them! Visiting Canada's National Parks will give you the opportunity to experience beauty in incredible ways for sure and Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve is a place where the amazing, surprising, unexpected and beauty all combine for a truly incredible place!

• Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve is famous for Canada's largest concentration of towering, 450-million-year-old erosion monoliths.
• Thousands of years of wind and sea erosion have carved the white limestone bedrock into bizarre, towering shapes which look like giant statues.
• Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve is made up of 40 islands and more than 1,000 islets in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec.
• The islands span a unique mix of subarctic boreal forests, flat gravel barrens which mimic arctic tundra, and peat bogs.
• The archipelago is an important sanctuary for seabirds, most notably the Atlantic Puffin (often called the "parrot of the sea"), Razorbills, and Common Murres.
• Over 450 species of plants and hundreds of mosses and lichens thrive here, including rare arctic plants usually found much further north.
• The ecosystems of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve are home to about 20 terrestrial mammals, including small herbivores, rodents, and insectivores such as the Snowshoe hare, the Gapper's red-backed vole, the Meadow vole, the Northern bog lemming, and the Cinereus shrew.
• The Common muskrat, River otter, and beaver can be seen in the aquatic environments of the islands. Although infrequently, the Black bear and moose can visit the islands.
• Among the marine mammals which frequent the coastal areas of Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve is the Grey seal, which feeds on octopus, lobsters and a wide variety of fish, several types of whales, and dolphins as well.

Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve is a place where you will see rock formations which will stun you for sure - I know I would be stunned by them if I ever have the opportunity to visit! You will find more information about Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve at this link.