Grasslands National Park

Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan, established in 1981 near Val Marie, preserves one of Canada’s few large undisturbed expanses of dry mixed-grass and shortgrass prairie in two sections, the West and East Blocks. Its semi-arid plains support rare or localized wildlife, including Canada’s only black-tailed prairie dog colonies, as well as bison, pronghorn, swift foxes, burrowing owls, and other prairie species. Shaped by glacial meltwater erosion, the landscape includes the Frenchman River Valley, Seventy Mile Butte, and Rock Creek badlands. The park also holds important Indigenous, scientific, and historical connections, and it became a dark-sky preserve in 2009.

Saskatchewan · Canada