Established in 1920, Kootenay National Park is one
of 41 national parks in Canada. Together, they celebrate and protect the diversity
of the nation's great landscapes. Kootenay National Park represents the south-western
region of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. From glacier-clad peaks along the
Continental Divide to semi-arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain Trench, where
cactus grows, this is a park rich in diversity of landscapes and ecology.