Canadas most REMOTE National Parks | Least ACCESSIBLE Canadian National Parks!

In this video we discuss 3 of Canada's least accessible and most remote national parks and what makes them special.
We also go through how to visit these parks as well as their peculiarities, so sit back, relax and enjoy learning about Canadian National Park Geography.
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Nahanni Images:
Virginia Falls (Nailicho), Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada , Paul Gierszewski, 1 Augusy 2009, en.wikipedia.o...
Locations Hub, Sarah Le, August 14 2020, www.locationsh...
5 mind-blowing wonders of the Nahanni, Darren Roberts, darrenroberts.com, spectacularnwt...
Nahanni National Park Reserve:, Aerial view of Mount Ida, Brintnell Creek and Glacier Lake near the Cirque of Unclimbables. Nahanni National Park Reserve. Photo c/o Parks Canada / Fritz Mueller, landsby.ca/blo...
The Northwest Territories’ Valley of the Headless Men is steeped in lore and legend., NWT Tourism, www.fodors.com...
Nahanni River Adventures & Canadian River Expeditions -Raft/Canoe/Hike, Creator: ANGELA GZOWSKI , nahanni.com/
5 ways the Nahanni will blow your mind, travel.destina...
A Holiday from Hell in the Headless Valley, Catherine McCarthy, / a-holiday-from-hell-in...
Torngat Images:
Escape to Canada’s pristine ‘place of spirits’, Anne Farrar, 2020, www.nationalge...
Exploring Canada’s Extremes, GIna Begin, 2014, www.outsideonl...
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Royal Canadian Air Force's 5 Wing Goose Bay air base, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, www.britannica...
Bucket list guide: Torngat Mountains National Park, Travel Destination Canada, travel.destina...
Photos: Exploring the Torngat Mountains, a place of spirits, Michelle Valberg, 2017, canadiangeogra...
Picture-perfect Torngat Mountains National Park leaves a mark on visitors, Creator: David Howells
Copyright: ©David Howells 2019, thetorngats.co...
Quttiniripaaq Images:
Air Force Glacier (behind) and Air Force River valley; Quttinirpaaq National Park, Nunavut, Canada, Ansgar Walk, creativecommon...,
Now You Can Virtually Visit Quttinirpaaq National Park, One of the Most Remote Places on Earth
Jason Daley, October 18, 2017, www.smithsonia...
Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ryan Bray , Credit: Photo: Ryan Bray
Copyright: ©Parcs Canada. Tous droits réservés. / ©Parks Canada. All rights reserved.
parks.canada.c...
Gull Glacier in Tanquary Fiord, Ansgar Walk, creativecommon...
parkscanadahist...
Quttinirpaaq, seen from above (Nunavut), Parks Canada, • Quttinirpaaq, seen fro...
Surviving the Arctic: Tips for Fearless Adventurers, Ali Kazal January 18, 2024, canadauntamed....
Transitioning towards clean energy in Grise Fiord, Nunavut, www.rcaanc-cir...
Quttinirpaaq National Park, peakvisor.com/...
The landscape of Quttinirpaaq National Park is dominated by glaciers and tundra vegetation., Joel Barker, 2011, www.nsf.gov/ne...
Canadian national parks, Parks Canada 2016, www.canadamaps...

[@moonface4698]

I came here just to say how nobody cares of this area. Canada is one landscape with different mountain height... 🤣

[@Urban_Atlas]

Nah, just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others don’t. Stop hating for no reason

[@moonface4698]

@@Urban_Atlas its called a joke🙃 calm down. U stink

[@Goldeneye3336]

A lot do. You can only speak for yourself. You are simply not smart enough to understand this.

[@jira6423]

U stink

[@moonface4698]

Yall stink. Its a joke

[@TravelWithMike-Green]

This video is truly Canadian, it expresses well how it is cheaper to travel abroad than within Canada 😆

[@Urban_Atlas]

Lol, it’s sadly true, but the inaccessibility keep these locations truly pristine so, there’s a positive as well 😂

[@rporobotjack3683]

Sable Island has been a National Park since 2011. I was fortunate enough to visit Sable Island twice while working offshore in the 1980's. We stopped over for a few hours both times to drop off equipment and supplies to the personnel on the island. To see the island was truly a thrill, and while flying off the island I could make out shipwrecks off its south coast. The horses and the number of seals were certainly nice to see. A true gem !.

[@Urban_Atlas]

That’s beautiful, it sounds amazing ❤️. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@LOZi175]

Fun fact: Sable means sand in French. Sand island.

[@Superneuf70]

Just for clarification, goose bay, is in Labrador, the province’s official name is Newfoundland and Labrador.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Yes, that is correct, thanks!

[@gl4989]

Isn't Labrador part of Québec ?

[@oilersridersbluejays]

@gl4989 no, not at all.

[@ericroy3443]

@@gl4989not since the council of lords or whatever in London decided to give the territory to Newfoundland.

[@LampLoungeLive]

Oh sorta like Turks and Caicos?

[@rayopeongo]

I met a guy a few years ago who was on the Torngat management committee. They had one meeting every year in the park just to remind everyone what they were in charge of. Very good idea, a really great trip.

[@Urban_Atlas]

That’s amazing, a truly unspoiled and magnificent place 🙏. Hope it stays the same for many many generations

[@Chiller11]

Part two is an excellent idea. These parks look to be pretty amazing.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thank you! Gonna start working on a part 2 soon!

[@numberz673]

I agree

[@simonpharand7427]

I am a carpenter who works at building infrastructure for the innus .. i get to visit these kind of places because of work, i love it

[@Urban_Atlas]

That sounds amazing❤️

[@Cocc0nuttt0]

"Oh cool, we have Iceland at home... $70k? nevermind"

[@Urban_Atlas]

😂😂😂😂

[@eldril1009]

@@Urban_Atlas lets be honest labrador should be in quebec

[@dingdong7610]

Northern quebec should be in Nunavut ​@@eldril1009

[@richarddaigle8777]

They drive wayyyyyy too slow. If it rains or snows, theyll drive half the speed limit its infuriating. @@eldril1009

[@babajaiy8246]

@@eldril1009 No it shouldn't...honestly speaking.

[@dunny2000]

I’m a Canadian who has visited quite a few national parks but not any of these remote and beautiful places. Maybe some day. Thank you and would love to see more about remote national or even provincial, parks.

[@Urban_Atlas]

You are very welcome, I hope you get a chance to visit these beautiful locations too 🙏

[@mrstealyoblocks4473]

Been to Resolute Bay, and to the top of Cornwallis Island when I was in the army. Incredible place.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Wow! How was your experience? Would love to hear more!

[@djknox2]

I've been to Nahanni and plan one day to get to Quttinirpaaq. I've been to several arctic islands including Banks and Baffin Islands among others. It is spectacular up there! I've been to about a dozen NPs in Canada - almost all of them are spectacular in some way.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Wow man that’s amazing 🤩. It’s my dream to visit Nahanni, Ayyutiq and Quttiniripaaq. How was your experience with Nahanni, would love to hear about it.

[@djknox2]

@@Urban_Atlas Nahanni was 15 years ago and so specifics are starting to fade. But without doubt it was amazing to canoe and hike for a week. My trip included the falls and the Cirque of the Unpenetrables...

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@djknox2that’s awesome man! Would love to visit.

[@yourservice67]

i care about this area, it has the Canadian version of grand canyon. breath taking, btw nice shout out to Tofino.

[@dmmchugh3714]

It's on my bucket list to travel to Quttinirpaaq National Park to photograph and hike the terrain. But as a single, not rich traveler, not sure if I ever could get there.

[@Urban_Atlas]

I hope you get there one day 🙏🙏

[@CrazyCass]

If I know correct the thumbnail’s place is a Inuit reserve in the Labrador region of the Newfoundland And Labrador province.

[@renzstudios649]

Yes please for the part two, I’ve always been fascinated with the arctic and have looked at these parks on google maps so many times and dreamed of all the incredible adventures possible there.

[@Urban_Atlas]

I do the exact same thing, this curiosity led to me to start researching and learning more about these parks!

[@MatthewSereysothea-hf1js]

What a great video! Thank You so much, I was amazed and surprised both.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vikvc]

Just the video I was looking for. I've been looking about Nahanni National Park for many days and I couldn't come up with the name nor location. Please, do a part 2!

[@Urban_Atlas]

There’s a part 2 as well! Check this video description for the link

[@Invertatude]

6:18 you're talking about the far arctic and using stock footage of the west coast, how much of what we see in this video is actually the locations described???

[@Urban_Atlas]

Most of it is, regrettably I would like to have access to my own footage of the high Arctic, but I currently don’t have the resources to visit quttiniripaaq national park. My long term Goal is to visit and create content of the high Arctic using my own footage!

[@AM-mr8or]

"Tofino Air" seems to fly everywhere.

[@wuhaninstituteofvirology]

@@Urban_Atlasno, the commentator is critisizing your erroneous use of west coast footage pretending to be arctic footage... it’s all stock footage & not your own, we understand - that’s not the issue *use the correct stock footage related to the locations in the video being discussed

[@michelhickey5765]

i have been to Resolute bay, what a great experience, i slept one night out doors ( in a old frozen igloo ) while on duty during the start of there 24hour daylight cycle, i would wake up at 2 am thinking it was 2 pm.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Woah that’s awesome! Sleeping in a frozen igloo sounds amazing. Hopefully it wasn’t too cold.

[@aaroncoroner5915]

I know it's not that hard to get to but I grew up not far from Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick and I love it and the name is cool too.

[@Urban_Atlas]

I have always been Intrigued and fascinated by Kouchibouguac. Tbh honest, I haven’t gotten around to research Kouchibouguac and its accessibility. Thank you for bring it up. Maybe in a part 2 or 3.

[@daniellebissonnette3304]

Excellent video! Canada is so big and beautiful 🇨🇦

[@Urban_Atlas]

It really is! Thank you 🙏

[@babajaiy8246]

It only seems big if you look at it on a typical mercator projection map - Where the closer the land mass is towards the poles the larger it seems than it really is, e.g. Greenland Land mass size, Canada is not much bigger than the US - 3.855 million square miles vs. 3.796 square miles.

[@stickynorth]

I'd be down for some of these trips however anytime medical access to days away? I'll pass... That's too remote even for an introvert like me... I worked up in Fort Simpson back in the 2010's briefly... A very spectacular place to visit especially if you go North or West from there... Or even SW into the Fort Liard area... Plus it has all the small town things you need like KFC, Pizza Hut and even Timmy's I believe via the Northern Store...

[@Urban_Atlas]

Yea definitely, medical access would be days away, it’s a risk you would have to take if you want to take on the adventure that awaits you if you plan on visiting these parks. I would love to visit Fort Simpson, it’s a dream of mine to one day visit Nahanni

[@StevenVeldt]

I have had a desire to visit Torngat but now I see that is a pipe dream. I'll have to focus more on Gros Morne

[@Urban_Atlas]

Never give up hope brother! Anything is possible. I hope you get to visit Torngat and Gros Morne one day 🙏

[@dingdong7610]

There are polar bears up there, but also brown bears and black bears, coyotes and wolves. Oh, and you can't bring a rifle in there, good luck with that.

[@MrOnionRing]

My roommate is from grise fiord! Pronounced as ‘grease’ btw.

[@Urban_Atlas]

I had no idea about the pronunciation! Thank you

[@Saxon709]

The picture you used for Goose Bay, well the Airbase (CFB Goose Bay) is an older one lol I can still see my old school, St. Michael's and Goose High School was right next to it. Can see a bit of the town, the uptown portion where I grew up but Happy Valley is missing from the pic. the town is pretty spread out though. Also, it's in Labrador, not Newfoundland, which is the island portion of the province.

[@Joyfulness87]

Thaidene Nene in NWT on the east arm of Great Slave Lake is awesome! Well worth exploring.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Yea and like barely anyone talks about it! Thank for sharing 🙏

[@VenatrixOoriana]

Very cool! I personally know a handful of people who have been to Ellesmere Island, my dad included when he worked with the Inuit, but also many of my lab mates from the Geography department at UOttawa which is well known for it's Arctic studies programs!

[@Urban_Atlas]

That’s so cool! Sounds like an awesome program.

[@davepowell3293]

Sable island is unique, being so very hard to get to but not all that remote or far from a major city

[@Urban_Atlas]

It is, I made a video on it on my Instagram.

[@VoIcanoman]

What about Wapusk? It's a rather new park, less than 30 years old, but has the advantage of being prime polar bear habitat. And it's pretty remote as well, there are no roads to take you there, you must fly or take a rail journey from Thompson, MB (or from Winnipeg, if you choose not to drive to Thompson). It's on my list of must-visit destinations in this massive country, for sure.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Yep! WaPusk is another one of those fairly remote parks and also one of bucket list destinations in Canada, I’m thinking I might talk about it in a part 2 or 3. There so so many amazing parks in Canada

[@jemrawc]

Excellent video and would love to see a part 2

[@Urban_Atlas]

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[@lajya01]

Most of Canada is either inaccessible or just countless miles of road in the wilderness. Not a very traveler friendly country unless you crave adventure.

[@Urban_Atlas]

That’s part of the adventure.

[@hdufort]

Torngat National park is adjacent to the (also gigantic) Kuururjuaq national park of Québec.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Yep and that is another one of those wild, untouched and beautiful national parks!

[@littleredridinghood5622]

There are sights in Newfoundland/Lab that you can't see anywhere else in the world ..

[@Urban_Atlas]

Absolutely 💯, such a beautiful province

[@raahimcheema9834]

Im your 1000th subscriber, good videos dude

[@Urban_Atlas]

Legend! Thank you man 🙏🙏

[@Ejoel07]

Didn't know it would bankrupt me just to visit 2 parks I want to visit...

[@Urban_Atlas]

So expensive 🙃

[@lilsacapunta]

thanks for making this!!! super fascinating :) love learning about this stuff

[@Urban_Atlas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Faithfulfamily]

Yes I would definitely watch another inaccessible national park video!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Part 2 is up on my page!

[@OGTabo0]

I just got back from northern Labrador. Canada is not so much a country as it is a federation built on a frontier. These hard to reach areas are important because of their remoteness, and the people who live in these remote areas need Ottawa a lot less than Ottawa relies on them

[@Urban_Atlas]

💯

[@mattmacneil]

Comment interaction bonus

[@AstroVilla]

Amazing work

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@MikeySlou]

Live in Canada. Never met anyone from Labrador

[@Urban_Atlas]

Me neither lol

[@davidrockefeller2007]

If you get super remote I wouldn’t be shocked if you ran into some beings that people don’t know exist. Bigfoot would be one of them.

[@Urban_Atlas]

There are stories of strange creatures in Nahanni like the Waheela. Pretty cool but creepy! Check it out!

[@lusl1094]

Thank you. More parks please.

[@Urban_Atlas]

More to come!

[@GeoffreyEspin]

Yes please more hard to access Canadian parks!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Part 2 is up! Check this video description for the link, more coming soon.

[@meececa]

Go. Film. ;) it’d be an amazing series!

[@Urban_Atlas]

I wish I could afford it myself 😂

[@-G-Mac-]

Great content! Great editing! Great video! Thank you!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Nowee16]

It’s really sad that so much of the forest have been burning down lately

[@Urban_Atlas]

It’s tragic 😞

[@richarddaigle8777]

What do you mean "so much"? I live here, not even 0.001% of the forest was burned. Did you know some trees here have pinecones that need fire to spread their seeds? Forest fires are part of the natural cycle and dumb humans have the hubris to think we can control it.

[@monge999]

I’ve been to Alert Canada.

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@monge999 Thts awesome! How was your experience

[@monge999]

@@Urban_Atlas I was with the Canadian army posted there for 6 months in 2020. 24 hours of daylight a day!

[@klondikechris]

Me too, for five trips equaling two years of actual time up there. The high Arctic is an awesome place!

[@meaghanisobel1803]

Yes part 2!!

[@Urban_Atlas]

It’s up! Check the description of this video for the link 🙏

[@meaghanisobel1803]

@@Urban_Atlas haha I saw that right after I commented. Awesome!

[@brandonkissoon9914]

I’m a pilot with Air Borealis. Flying to the torngats tomorrow morning!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Man, Thts gotta be the best job ever!

[@brandonkissoon9914]

Insane actually. I’d tell any pilot to get a job bush flying before they go to the airlines

[@nukeman360]

Thanks

[@Urban_Atlas]

Welcome

[@zachvydra9309]

That ungulate at 4:16 was a fallow deer and not a caribou. Fallow deer are not native to North America… much of the stock footage in this video is misleading.

[@Urban_Atlas]

My apologies on getting the incorrect species on the stock video

[@AuntyKsTarot]

National Parks don't protect lans, there is heavy resource extraction in them although small portions are for camping. Algonquin Park for example has 70% of the park used for logging and mining. Mostly they were created to kick Indigenous people off lands.

[@Canleaf08]

Algonquin is not managed by Parks Canada, but by Parks Ontario. So it is per se not a national park, but a provincial park.

[@Swingkingz]

Excellent video

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thank you!

[@saras9774]

Goodness! Just travelling within Canada robs you!! 😫😫😫

[@Urban_Atlas]

Lol 😂

[@SailorGreenTea]

Interesting

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thanks!

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

That was excellent! Thank you!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Glad you enjoyed it! More content coming soon! 🙏

[@Walkerxy]

Yes please let’s get the part 2

[@Urban_Atlas]

Coming soon!

[@DarkpawTheWolf]

Incredible.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thank you 🙏

[@laureeeent]

8:31 lol that's downtown Montréal not very remote tbh

[@Urban_Atlas]

it’s just a filler clip as I speak 😅

[@laureeeent]

@@Urban_Atlas don't worry I liked the vid. thanks for sharing. just clicked.. "hey that's lac des castors .. i live there xd"

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@laureeeent thank you 🙏 I appreciate it!

[@WontTrout]

Great vid :)

[@Urban_Atlas]

Thank you 🙏 don’t forget to check out part 2!

[@boatingwithspencer101]

Nice video, thank you

[@Urban_Atlas]

Glad you liked it!

[@ARCTICMADMAN9914]

“Cant go here” although a few thousand people live there.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Which national park are you referring too?

[@steveschijns3204]

My 2023 rafting trip down the South Nahanni River is highlighted in my music video, "Oh Nahanni": kzbin.info/www/bejne/e32VkGWAosarjMk

[@Urban_Atlas]

Beautiful, I took a look and I love the music and the imagery. Thank you 🙏

[@LampLoungeLive]

I’d stay far away from Nahanni valley

[@Urban_Atlas]

Most people do.

[@zachvydra9309]

I didn’t. It was an amazing place.

[@relaxingnature2617]

metric please ..nobody knows what 913 miles is

[@Urban_Atlas]

1469 km

[@maxshea1829]

I think by the third day of a trip to any of those places, I'd secretly crave to be in a McDonald's in Toronto!

[@Urban_Atlas]

Me too 😂!

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Couldn’t pay me enough to ever want to go to Toronto.

[@maxshea1829]

@@oilersridersbluejays That bad, huh?

[@enigmalfidelity]

National Parks don't require a guide. Anybody who says you do is full of it. We have the right to free travel in Canada. Unless it's private property, it's accessible by anybody.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Not required by law, but you would be stupid to try and explore Torngat without a local guide.

[@dylangamble4810]

Cruise ships really are terrible for the environment.

[@timp3931]

6:20 not Resolute Bay - fake!

[@Urban_Atlas]

When did I say that was Resolute Bay, it’s just a stock video?

[@timp3931]

@@Urban_Atlas Use a stock video of Resolute Bay, duh. Were the photos a Nahanni real?

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@timp3931 if you find a stock video of resolute bay let me know. And yes they are real

[@timp3931]

@@Urban_Atlas www.google.ca/maps/@74.6973345,-94.8256881 nice place, in'it?

[@TonyRedunzo]

Canada's most exclusive national parks-Accessible only by millionaires. Fixed that for you

[@Urban_Atlas]

Lol 😂 thank you

[@serkanister3620]

I am looking for hiking parter to visit anyone these park! I don't think I am brave enough enough to do that alone

[@Urban_Atlas]

I would love to hike these parks too!

[@serkanister3620]

@Urban_Atlas well I am from bc Canada and I am up for any extreme back country camping! Let me know if you visit here, we might do it together

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@serkanister3620def I will reach out to you ❤

[@sincerewyd2285]

I'm native american from Manitoba. And I need to pay $70,000 just to see my cousins from up north? What a joke..

[@Urban_Atlas]

You may need to pay even more, $70,000 is just the chartered flight. There are additional fees to access certain areas of the park.

[@sincerewyd2285]

@Urban_Atlas 😭😭😭 is so beautiful tho!!!

[@Urban_Atlas]

@@sincerewyd2285 it is brother! Some of the most unique and beautiful scenery in the world!

[@steveschijns3204]

there are no people in the park, so you won't see any cousins up there....

[@rexmon2592]

Uh yea? What did you think? That you would be able to travel for free just because of your ethnic background? Get a grip

[@MrAlexxgore]

Trust me you can.

[@Urban_Atlas]

👍

[@JeanFrancoisDesrosiers]

Good info. Questionable use of images and congested inhalation breathing.

[@Urban_Atlas]

Limited to only some images and videos due to copyright and yes mic has some problems which I’m working on.

[@DarylRenz]

Taxpayers pay for the rich

[@eldril1009]

ice breaking cruiseship because who give a fuck abouth the planet am i right?

[@Urban_Atlas]

Another way to make a Buck I guess.

[@dreambiggarage]

You might wanna check some of your facts buddy

[@Urban_Atlas]

Which one?

[@dreambiggarage]

@@Urban_Atlas well might want to search alert and goosebay is in Labrador and ya nflnd and Labrador are together geographically there not

[@leroux8753]

Man is so funny he think i can go there whit my plane !

[@Urban_Atlas]

???

[@AricGardnerMontreal]

there's nothing pristine about the parks, generally they log in them and the eco systems are very degraded. as for the ones mentioned in this video, they are so far north that they barely have any life or plants. more interesting to visit a desert.

[@deanemberley2333]

What a stupid comment. Have you been to any of these parks in the North ? Then Log in Nahanni?

[@steveschijns3204]

Incorrect. Nahanni NP is fully forested (unlogged) and essentially pristine.

[@billsanderson1442]

Then go to the places you find interesting. I've visited the high arctic three times and it is otherworldly. It held my interest for the time I was there. I've also flown over the Torngats a couple of times and said a few prayers that our C-130 would be able to get all the way to Iqaluit.

[@nicktw8688]

They are unique biomes. Of course there is life there.