Mount Revelstoke National Park is a national park in the Columbia-Rockies of British Columbia.
Mount Revelstoke National Park is adjacent to the city of Revelstoke. The park is relatively small for a Canadian national park, covering 260 km² (100 sq mi). It is in the Selkirk Mountains and was founded in 1914. Approximately 600,000 visitors enter Mount Revelstoke and nearby Glacier National Park each year.
This national park protects a small herd of the threatened woodland caribou as well as providing habitats for cougars, grizzly bears, lynxes, black bears, red foxes, moose, martens, coyotes, a variety of bats, wolf packs, several species of shrews, voles, mice, wolverines, and mountain goats.
The park contains a portion of one of the world's few inland temperate rain forests. Steep, rugged mountains can be found in a warm, moist climate. A variety of plant and animal life is typical with stands of old-growth Western Redcedar and Western Hemlock, a forest type which is rapidly declining outside of protected areas. The park's inland rainforest also has an isolated population of banana slugs which marks the eastern boundary of their distribution in North America.
Mount Revelstoke National Park is in southeastern British Columbia, a 6-hour drive from Vancouver or 4½-hour drive from Calgary along Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway). The town of Revelstoke is adjacent to the western entrance and serves as a base for exploring the park.
Access is by highway. The community of Revelstoke, 800 m southwest of the park, is almost halfway from Calgary to Vancouver. It is served by small (charter) aircraft and by commercial bus lines. The Trans Canada Highway (Highway #1) is the point of access for visitors. It runs just inside the park's boundary for 13 km along the southeast perimeter of the park.
The park is open year-round but its upper reaches can be snowbound into July. Many facilities are closed from October to May.
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Annual pass until June 30/after June 30 (2018):
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Backcountry use and camping per permit (2018):
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