Parks Canada App

Parks Canada/Parcs Canada

About this app

Welcome to the official Parks Canada App, your pocket guide to the best visit. Let us help you locate and discover the national parks, national historic sites, national urban parks, national marine conservation areas, and historic canals and waterways across Canada. 450 000 km2 of stories at your fingertips!

- Over 200 locations: Plan your next visit and take the app with you for on-the-go access to the most requested information.
- Mobile guided tours: Exclusive access to self-guided tours on your mobile device. Explore at your own pace with interactive experiences featuring photos, videos, quizzes, and games. Explore on foot, by car, on a bicycle, or hike a trail. Go behind the scenes and discover the untold stories of your favourite locations.
- GPS features: See your location on maps, get customized lists, and use automatic GPS activated self-guided tours. Link to your favourite maps app to get turn-by-turn directions to your destinations.
- Accessibility: Support for screen readers and all content is available in French and English. More languages available for select tours.
- Relevant website links: Looking to book a campsite, or buy a Discovery Pass? Find the information you need with quick links to relevant pages on the Parks Canada website.
- Favourites: Save your destinations, tours, or any page on the app to your profile page. No login required.
- Available offline: Download the app in advance and use it when you are offline. Download guided tours and use them from anywhere - including places with no cell service.

Note that by using GPS features, you can see your location on maps, get customized lists, and use GPS triggered self-guided tours. Continued use of GPS in the background can significantly decrease battery life.

Ratings and reviews

This summer, our family decided to take in several of the fantastic parks we take for granted in our region of the country. The app was extremely helpful in enhancing our experience both in the planning stages of our trip and while on site. Quick tip: There are several features of the app that require wifi or a data signal (like the guided tours). We made a point of downloading or even screenshotting pertinent things to our trip prior to our travel. Was a game changer!

This app need better search functionality and filtering to find sites for specific activities near you. Until then it's really only helpful if you know exactly what you're already looking for.

Extremely disappointing, but there's no alternative. I tried to book a camping site online, and could not. Booking online is the reason I installed the app! There needs to be another area in the app so you can log on and confirm your identity. Instead you need to find the campsite then drill down to log in. Anyway, once I got to the pay area the app wouldn't let me pay. The Parks Canada Full website is a failure too.