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Parks Canada calls the Bay of Fundy home to the world's highest tides, with water rising 12 metres or more. At Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park you can take 99 stairs down to the ocean floor at low tide, then come back hours later to see it under water: admission is good for two days in a row. Check the tide times before you go.

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Each winter the National Capital Commission turns the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into the world's largest skating rink: 7.8 km of ice in Ottawa. The season usually runs from about January to early March, weather permitting, and skating is free at any hour. Check the ice conditions page before you lace up.

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EdgeWalk takes you around the outside of the CN Tower's main pod, 356 metres (116 storeys) above Toronto. Guinness World Records certified it as the highest external walk on a building in the world in 2011. Plan on about 90 minutes in all, with 30 of them out on the edge.

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The Hartland Bridge has crossed the Saint John River since 1901, and at 1,282 feet the Town of Hartland calls it the world's longest covered bridge. More than a century on, it is still the landmark the town is known for.

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The Trans Canada Trail is a 30,000-kilometre network of connected trails, and it calls itself the longest multi-use trail system in the world. Pick any stretch and you are out on a record holder.

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Wood Buffalo National Park straddles the Alberta and Northwest Territories boundary and is the largest national park in Canada. Parks Canada also calls it the world's largest Dark Sky Preserve, so the stars are part of the visit, along with vital whooping crane habitat.

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The PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola at Whistler Blackcomb hangs on one unbroken stretch of cable 3,024 metres long between towers. That was the longest free span of any passenger ropeway in the world until 2017, when the Zugspitze-Eibsee cable car in Germany passed it by 189 metres. Half as Interesting tells the story of the build in the video below.

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Roosevelt Campobello International Park calls itself the only park in the world jointly managed, staffed, and owned by the peoples of two countries. A 1964 treaty signed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson created it around the Roosevelts' 34-room summer cottage on Campobello Island.

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Revelstoke Mountain Resort is home to North America's longest descent, 1,713 metres of vertical by the resort's own count. Afar puts it at 5,620 feet, the longest vertical on the continent. Skiing it top to bottom in one go is a serious test for the legs.

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Destination British Columbia calls Whistler Blackcomb North America's largest ski resort, and Afar says the same. It does not go quiet when the snow melts: the mountains also hold one of the continent's largest lift-accessed bike parks.

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Rough Guides calls Vieux-Québec, surrounded by solid fortifications, the only walled city in North America. Parks Canada runs guided walks on the Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site in summer (June 19 to September 7 in 2026).

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Parks Canada calls L'Anse aux Meadows the only known Viking site and the earliest known evidence of European presence in North America: an encampment Norse expeditions built over 1,000 years ago in Newfoundland. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978 and is open daily from June 1 to October 2 in 2026.

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Parks Canada calls Banff the country's first national park and the flagship of the system, and the Cave and Basin hot springs in town the birthplace of national parks in Canada. Shuttles are the most reliable way to reach Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, and they need a reservation.

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