Terra Nova National Park

Newfoundland'S First National Park, Established 1957, Covering About 400 Square Kilometres Of The Bonavista Bay Coast Where The Boreal Forest Meets Deep Sheltered Sounds And Icebergs Drift Past In Early Summer · Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador

Terra Nova was NEWFOUNDLAND'S FIRST NATIONAL PARK, established in 1957 eight years after the island joined Canada, and it protects about four hundred square kilometres of the Bonavista Bay coast - a drowned landscape of long narrow sounds reaching inland between forested ridges, so that the boreal forest comes right down to salt water. The Trans-Canada Highway runs straight through it, which makes it one of the most easily reached national parks in Atlantic Canada, and yet the sounds themselves feel remote within minutes of leaving the road. ICEBERGS DRIFT DOWN FROM GREENLAND INTO NEWMAN SOUND IN LATE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER in a good year, whales feed here through the season, and the Ochre Hill lookout gives the whole system of inlets at once. It is a working landscape too - people have fished and cut timber here for centuries, and the park's exhibits say so.

Trans-Canada Highway, Bonavista Bay, eastern Newfoundland, Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

THE MAIN SEASON RUNS ROUGHLY LATE MAY TO EARLY OCTOBER, when the campgrounds, the visitor centre, the boat tours and the services operate and a PARKS CANADA ENTRY FEE APPLIES, recently around CAD 6-9 per adult daily with a Discovery Pass covering it. THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY CROSSES THE PARK AND IS OPEN ALL YEAR, so the park can be driven through and walked in winter free of charge, with no services and unmaintained trails. NEWMAN SOUND CAMPGROUND IS THE MAIN ONE and is reservable through Parks Canada, filling in July and August. BOAT TOURS OF THE SOUNDS OPERATE SEASONALLY and are the best way to see the park - book ahead. ICEBERG SEASON IS ROUGHLY LATE MAY TO EARLY JULY and varies enormously year to year. Backcountry camping requires registration.

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