Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

Rocky Mountain National Park
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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Banff,and Yoho national parks combine with four smaller provincial parks on both sides of the Alberta-B.C. border to form the Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site. It's chockablock full of wildlife-spotting and extreme sport opportunities, not to mention the beauty of mountains, alpine meadows, turquoise lakes, glaciers, the Columbia Icefield and hot springs. The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, form a striking mountain landscape. The Burgess Shale fossil site, well known for its fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals, is also found there. http://www.pc.gc.ca/
Some of the best-known mountain scenery on Earth is concentrated in a set of seven parks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Indeed, in much of the world, mention of Canada evokes images of snow-capped peaks and chateauesque hotels in parks named Banff or Jasper. More than nine million people annually visit the seven preserves along the Alberta-British Columbia border.
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RELATED LINKS:
Banff National Park of Canada
Jasper National Park of Canada
Kootenay National Park of Canada
Yoho National Park of Canada
Cave and Basin National Historic Site of Canada

Province of British Columbia
Mount Robson Provincial Park
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park
Hamber Provincial Park