Wood Buffalo Country

Getting here

Getting here Drive to Fort Smith on Northwest Territories Highway 5 – a 273 kilometre trip from Hay River through the northern third of Wood Buffalo Park, with several scenic stops along the way. Northwestern Air Lease connects Edmonton and Yellowknife to Fort Smith, six days a week.

Wood Buffalo Country

Wood Buffalo Country

Wood Buffalo National Park is a northern world all its own, a driveable wilderness at one end of the Mackenzie Highway. Wood Buffalo is one of the largest parks on earth - at 44,807 square kilometers - an enormous Boreal wilderness that was set aside to protect wood bison.

Wood Buffalo Country

Wood Buffalo National Park

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Kayaking Slave River Rapids

Pelicans There are four sets of rapids in a 25 kilometre stretch on the Slave River, the Cassette, the Pelican, the Mountain and the Rapids of the Drowned.

Communities

Communities

Getting Here

Getting here

Wood Buffalo Country

Wood Buffalo Country

Wood Buffalo National Park

Kayaking Slave River Rapids

The Salt Plains