Back حديقة مقاطعة ألغونكوين Arabic Algonquin Provincial Park CEB Algonquin Provincial Park German Parque provincial Algonquin Spanish پارک آلگانکوین Persian Parc provincial Algonquin French Parque provincial Algonquin Galician Parco provinciale di Algonquin Italian アルゴンキン州立公園 Japanese ალგონკინის პარკი Georgian
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| Algonquin Provincial Park | |
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 View overlooking Cache Lake | |
  Location in Ontario (Canada) | |
| Location | Central Ontario, Canada |
| Nearest town | Dwight Whitney |
| Coordinates | 45°35′03″N 78°21′30″W / 45.58417°N 78.35833°W |
| Area | 7,723 km2 (2,982 sq mi) |
| Established | May 23, 1893 |
| Visitors | 1,056,821 (in 2022[2]) |
| Operator | Ontario Parks |
| Website | ontarioparks.com/park/algonquin |
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| Official name | Algonquin Provincial Park National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | June 1992 |
Algonquin Provincial Park is an Ontario provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada.[3] Additions since its creation have increased the park to its current size of about 7,653 km2 (2,955 sq mi). The park is contiguous with several smaller, administratively separate provincial parks that protect important rivers in the area, resulting in a larger total protected area.[4]
Its size, combined with its proximity to the major urban centres of Toronto and Ottawa, makes Algonquin one of the most popular provincial parks in the province and the country. Highway 60 runs through the south end of the park, while the Trans-Canada Highway bypasses it to the north.[5] Over 2,400 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams and rivers are located within the park. Some notable examples include Canoe Lake and the Petawawa, Nipissing, Amable du Fond, Madawaska, and Tim rivers. These were formed by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age.
The park is considered part of the "border" between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The park is in an area of transition between northern coniferous forest and southern deciduous forest. This unique mixture of forest types, and the wide variety of environments in the park, allows the park to support an uncommon diversity of plant and animal species. It is also an important site for wildlife research.
Algonquin Park was named a National Historic Site in 1992 in recognition of several heritage values including: its role in the development of park management; pioneering visitor interpretation programs later adopted by national and provincial parks across the country; its role in inspiring artists, which in turn gave Canadians a greater sense of their country; and historic structures such as lodges, hotels, cottages, camps, entrance gates (the West Gate was designed by George H. Williams, Chief Architect and Deputy Minister of Public Works for the Province of Ontario), a railway station, and administration and museum buildings.[6]
Algonquin Park is the only designated park within the province of Ontario to allow industrial logging to take place within its borders.
- ^ UNEP-WCMC. "Protected Area Profile for Algonquin Provincial Park". World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ Parks, Ontario. "Ontario_Parks-Visitation-Statistics 2022 - Ministries". data.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ "Le parc provincial Algonquin". Government of Ontario (in French). 2009-11-02. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) | Algonquin Provincial Park | The Friends of Algonquin Park". www.algonquinpark.on.ca. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ^ "Directions to Algonquin Park | Algonquin Provincial Park | The Friends of Algonquin Park". www.algonquinpark.on.ca. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ^ "Algonquin Provincial Park". Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada. Retrieved 2018-10-01.