It’s a pity for those who have never been here. What you miss is not only the beautiful scenery but also the world.

What a pity for those who have never been here, what you miss is not just the beautiful scenery but the world.

It is the crisp autumn time again, the clear sky is spotless, and the most beautiful thing is A great time to view the stars in the night sky. If you want to ask where to go to watch the stars this month, there is undoubtedly only one answer - Jasper National Park, which is currently hosting the annual Dark Sky Festival.

Jasper National Park, located in Alberta, Canada, is the second largest dark sky reserve in the world. On a clear night, you can enjoy the colorful Milky Way and thousands of shining stars. In the night sky lit up by bright stars, you can easily catch the meteors streaking across the sky and experience the artistic conception of "stars hanging down over the plains and vast fields". Every fall is Jasper’s “Starry Moon,” which is why the Dark Sky Festival was born.

During this year’s Dark Sky Festival, you can listen to an open-air concert from a world-famous symphony orchestra with a sky full of stars without artificial light interference; look up and wait for the once-in-a-lifetime partial solar eclipse to appear. Watch the magical changes in the celestial bodies; astronauts, astronomers and photographers sit around the campfire with everyone, share interesting stories, and start a unique party under the dazzling starry sky.

If you can’t catch this year’s Starry Sky Festival, don’t regret it. The Canadian government has announced that 46 national parks including Jasper Park will be free to all visitors throughout 2017. If you are full of yearning for the vast and magnificent natural beauty, how could you miss such a good opportunity? Let us take you to the other 7 most worth-seeing national parks in Canada in advance.

Banff National Park

Banff National Park

Banff National Park, established in 1885, is Canada’s first national park and a well-known national park in Canada. One of the praises from tourists is that "1 Banff is worth 20 Switzerland". The park has a complete range of ice experience activities, making it a paradise for outdoor adventure enthusiasts. Lake Louise in the middle of the park has particularly beautiful scenery. Because the melting snow brings a lot of quartz stone powder from the mountains, which mixes and melts with the lake water, the lake water will change from blue to green according to the light intensity, and the lake is full of green, so it is also called the Emerald Lake. The methane produced by the decay of plants at the bottom of the lake is frozen into ice bubbles all over the lake, forming a strange scene.

Fathom Five National Marine Park

Fathom Five National Marine Park

Fathom Five National Marine Park is located in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario. It was originally It was built to protect and display local lighthouses, 22 shipwrecks and freshwater ecosystems, and later became one of the best wreck diving areas in North America. The Vase Island in the park is named after two boulders that resemble vases. They were formed in the Ice Age in ancient times. They were raised out of the water due to the movement of tectonic plates. Lake Huron surrounding the island is clear and transparent, with fish and shrimps swimming in it and wild ducks floating on it. water surface. Waterbirds leap into the sky at sunset, making Lake Huron full of life as night approaches.

Wapusk National Park

Wapusk National Park

The Northern Lights light up the sky in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada One of the easiest national parks to visit in the North. "Wapusk" is an Indian Cree language, meaning "white bear". There are about 1,000 polar bears living here, making it the largest polar bear colony in the world. Churchill Point can be reached by helicopter or tundra horse-drawn carriage. It is world-famous as the best location in the world to watch and photograph wild polar bears.

Prince Edward Island National Park

Prince Edward Island National Park

Prince Edward Island is located in eastern Canada and is the smallest province in the country. Composed of a crescent-shaped island divided into three areas, this national park is located on the most beautiful sand ribbon on the east coast of the North American continent. These protected sandy beaches provide excellent habitat for birds, especially the endangered piping plover, and have been recognized as one of Canada's Important Bird Areas. Walking on the beach near Covehead Lighthouse and looking around, you will not only marvel at how vividly the scenes described in the novel "The Beautiful Lady" are restored, but you will also discover wonderful experiences that cannot be described in words.

Gros Morne National Park

Gros Morne National Park

Gros Morne is French, literally meaning "very lonely", here it means " A mountain standing alone." Gros Morne National Park is a vibrant piece of natural history and a rare example of continental drift, exposing deep sea floors and rocks from the Earth's mantle. Coastal lowlands, alpine meadows, freshwater fjords, glacial canyons, cliffs, streams and waterfalls, ancient lakes... Everything here seems so ancient and mysterious, you will definitely fall in love with it.

Nahanni National Park

Nahanni National Park Reserve

The Nahanni National Park, located north of 60 degrees north latitude, has limited traffic and is inaccessible. Accessible by helicopter or seaplane, this secluded and mysterious style is also one of the features of Nahanni that attracts tourists. Virginia Falls is the largest waterfall on the South Nahanny River, twice as tall as the famous Niagara Falls. This is an area where ice and fire are intertwined, and the landscape contrast is extremely strong. Whenever summer comes, wild orchids bloom in the pits dug out of melted ice near Virginia Falls. In winter, the temperature here often drops to minus 50 degrees Celsius, turning it into a world of ice.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Cape Breton Highlands National Park borders the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the west. Famous for its spectacular highland and ocean scenery. The Cabot Trail, a world-famous scenic highway, crosses the plateau along portions of the coastal border on both sides of the park. Cape Breton Highlands National Park and its rare species landscape are natural landscapes formed by the St. Lawrence River in Canada. The St. Lawrence River flows along its western edge, while to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. You can view strange rocks, exotic promontories and pebbled beaches along the coastline. Archaeologists have also discovered traces of human activities here 10,000 years ago.