Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies spans 11,000 square kilometres, making it the province’s largest Rocky Mountain national park, known for mountains, lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, and dark skies. Its history reaches back to long Indigenous habitation by Nakoda, Cree, Secwépemc, and Dane-zaa peoples, with archaeological evidence dating between 8000 and 7000 BCE. The upper Athabasca later became a major fur-trade route, and posts such as Jasper House served travelers through the mountain passes. Established in 1907 as Jasper Forest Park and formally designated a national park in 1930, it grew with railway tourism while displacing Métis families and reshaping a long-inhabited valley.

Alberta · Canada