World Heritage Site
This park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, together with the other national and provincial parks that form the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, for the mountain landscapes containing mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves as well as fossils found here.
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View to the south-east from the viewpoint near Sinclair Pass
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Ottertail River
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Paint Pots
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Kootenay River valley
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Bighorn Sheep
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Bighorn Sheep
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Lilium philadelphicum
Wild lily at Dog Lake Trail -
BC Highway 93 leading into the park through Sinclair Canyon
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Olive lake
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