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Wood Buffalo National Park

59.0393° N, 112.7202° W

Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta. 59.0393° N, 112.7202° W

National park, 35,640 km². Scale bar on the map.

borealbound.ca/parks/ab/wood-buffalo-national-park/, compiled October 9, 2026

  • Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.

Wood Buffalo National Park is a 35,640 km² national park 17 km southwest of Fort Smith, in Alberta. It was established in 1922.

54 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Lake Athabasca (7,530 km²).

Area
35,640 km²
Established
1922
Named lakes
54

Sun and moon today

Civil dawn
7:14 a.m.
Sunrise
7:54 a.m.
Sunset
6:40 p.m.
Civil dusk
7:20 p.m.
Moonrise
6:48 a.m.
Moonset
5:58 p.m.
Moon
Waning crescent, 1% lit

In the park

The 12 largest of 54 named lakes, ranked by area.

FeatureArea
1Lake Athabasca7,530 km²
2Lake Claire1,330 km²
3Mamawi Lake146 km²
4Baril Lake56.5 km²
5Hilda Lake21.5 km²
6Tth’ël kué21.2 km²
7Welstead Lake17.8 km²
8Otter Lake17.4 km²
9Merryweather Lake14.8 km²
10Buchan Lake13.4 km²
11Robertson Lake12.9 km²
12Ruis Lake11.4 km²

Rivers

Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.

Official record

Designation
National park
IUCN category
II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
Managed by
Parks Canada Agency

Names

  • Parc national du Canada Wood BuffaloFrench form