Nahanni National Park Canada – World’s FIRST UNESCO World Heritage Site!

Just when you think Canada couldn’t get anymore wild, you enter Nahanni National Park. There’s a reason Nahanni National Park was the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world! It’s unbelievably magical. Canyons, mountains, rivers, waterfalls, wildlife, and so much more.

We had the opportunity to see Nahanni National Park with our own eyes during our 150-day road trip across Canada in 2017. We took a 5-hour flight seeing tour with Simpson Air, landing near Angel Falls to get some light hiking in.

Words can’t describe how breathtaking it is so watch the VIDEO! 🙂

CORRECTION: We accidentally called the waterfall Angel Falls when it’s actually Virginia Falls.

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Any Questions? Have you been? Want to go?

Words cannot describe the first moment we approached Nahanni National Park. Sitting aboard a float plane, Ted Simpson, owner of Simpson Air, flew us up and over this massive untouched park on one of his popular 5-hour tours. We flew by jagged mountain peaks, numerous canyons, massive rivers, hot springs, and waterfalls.

It was truly magical, and had the weather been more cooperative, we could have gone even deeper. We did land though, right next to Virginia Falls, which is twice the height of Niagara Falls, Here we met Parks Canada staff who brought us on a short hike to see the falls from different

Angles and to capture them with our drone. For those with more time, the trail also leads down towards the bottom portion of the river where you can witness the falls from below. Absolutely massive. The park encompasses 30,000 square kilometres and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In fact, it’s the first UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is pretty incredible considering there are now over 1,000 of them, all across the world. There are no roads for hundreds of miles, and the only way to come in is via a multi-week

Canoeing expedition or a flight-seeing tour such as the one we were on. This is part of what makes Nahanni National Park so special. It’s virtually un-disturbed. It only receives around 1,000 visitors per year, which is less than what Banff National Park gets in a single day.

You have to really want to see Nahanni to make it there. You need to crave adventure. A 5-hour flight-seeing tour isn’t exactly cheap and a three-week canoe trip is even more. Then there’s the cost and time of getting to Fort Simpson in the first place.

You have to either drive all the way to the Northwest Territories, which includes hundreds of kilometres of dirt roads, or fly with a small carrier such as First Air. But as I mentioned, that’s what keeps Nahanni so wild and pure. It’s what keeps the area so mystical in a sense.

An isolated place such as Antarctica or the North Pole. Yet, experiencing the park is far from impossible. With enough will and adventure, and some money to back it up, you too can experience Nahanni National Park with your own eyes. A true Canadian wilderness icon.