PROVINCIAL PARKS

A walk in the park
Sing in the valleys, dance in the clearings and stomp in the puddles of some of Canada’s most spectacular provincial and territorial parks

Yukon

Tombstone Territorial Park

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Rock and stroll
Follow the Dempster Highway past Dawson and watch as boreal forest gives way to subarctic tundra in Tombstone Territorial Park. Five large mammals — caribou, moose, sheep, grizzlies and black bears — roam the area, and gyrfalcons and golden eagles are among 137 bird species patrolling the skies. Protecting more than 2,000 square kilometres of wilderness, the park is part of the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, whose presence here stretches back 8,000 years. Modern-day explorers can follow Grizzly Creek, the park’s only established trail, to the heart of the Tombstone Range.

Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park
Get into the grove
Walk among giants — towering spruce 95 metres tall and 800 years old — in the valleys of Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. Wear your rain gear and hiking boots on the often muddy trails along the banks of Carmanah Creek, where you can stroll upstream and seek out scenic viewing platforms, or make your way downstream to visit the Randy Stoltmann Commemorative Grove. Named for the late conservationist who discovered the legendary trees, the grove is a monument to his efforts to protect the Sitka spruce forests, age-old cedars and kaleidoscope of ecosystems and habitats of the Carmanah and Walbran river valleys.