Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

It consists of four national parks:

Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada

Highway, approximately 126 km (78 mi) west of Calgary and 58 km (36 mi) east of Lake Louise. At an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft) to 1,630 m (5,350 ft), Banff is the community with the second highest elevation in Alberta after Lake Louise.

It is located in the province of Alberta, north of Banff National

Park and west of Edmonton. The park includes the glaciers of the Columbia Icefield, hot springs, lakes, waterfalls and mountains.

the Canadiaт Rockies, and forms part of a World Heritage Site. The

park ranges in elevation from 918 m (3,012 ft) at the southwestern park entrance, to 3,424 m (11,234 ft) at Deltaform Mountain.

slope of the Continental Divide of the Americas in southeastern British Columbia. Yoho

NP is bordered by Kootenay National Park on the southern side and Banff National Park on the eastern side in Alberta. The name Yoho comes from the Cree word for awe and wonder. Yoho covers 1,313 km2 (507 mi2) and it is the smallest of the four contiguous national parks. 

Provincial Park

river systems including: North Saskatchewan River Athabasca River Columbia River Fraser River

diversity. It includes the Burgess Shale site, a World Heritage Site in

its own right from 1980 to 1984, when it was included in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks WHS designation.

parks for inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage

Sites. UNESCO accepted this nomination in 1984 on the basis of a recommendation by IUCN. The original nomination and IUCN's recommendation drew attention to the area's "exceptional natural beauty", "habitats of rare and endangered species" and its natural landforms such as mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, canyons, limestone caves, and the unique Burgess Shale fossils.