Salt Plains
Plain in Wood Buffalo Park where saline springs emerge and leave crusts and mounds of salt on the ground, with a viewpoint and trail down to the floor.
Territórios do Noroeste · Canada
In the destination Wood Buffalo.
In the photo: Street in Fort Smith in winter.
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The city
Town on the edge of the Slave River rapids, near the Alberta border, headquarters for Wood Buffalo National Park. Once a stopping point for boats bypassing the rapids, it has a colony of pelicans on river islands and is the base for the park’s salt plains and dark-sky areas.
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The local experience
Plain in Wood Buffalo Park where saline springs emerge and leave crusts and mounds of salt on the ground, with a viewpoint and trail down to the floor.
Green-blue lake formed in limestone sinkholes in Wood Buffalo Park, with a beach, campground and trails through the boreal forest.
Series of rapids on the Slave River by Fort Smith, with viewpoints and trails along the bank and the northernmost colony of American white pelicans on the islands.