Parks Canada App 4+
Official app and GPS tours
Parks Canada / Parcs Canada
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
450 000 km2 of stories at your fingertips.
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’re 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.
What’s New
Version 9.0.194
We've added a profile section and favourites feature. Save your favourite locations, tours, or weather forecast for easy access on the go.
- Small bug fixes and improved image loading when offline.
- The Parks Canada app is updated regularly with new content, seasonal updates, and new mobile guided tours.
Ratings and Reviews
Best parks app
Perfect for planning my trip to Canada this summer!
Please restore “save my trip” and offline mode
I had started using this app to save my upcoming trip to Western Canada. After the update my app data for the trip disappeared, I can’t favorite parks anymore, and I can’t save my trip offline.
I like the content but it is a bit slow to load certain pages. It seems like this is now an app viewer for web content. My understanding is that some parks have limited cellular so having an organized trip with offline content would have been very useful. I will need to rely on ebooks and other apps now to reference my trip.
Requires location sharing to see map
I can’t get over the location requirement to browse the map. Why should you need to know exactly where I am (down to neighborhood) in order to plan my trip in another province? Why would a public agency not allow us to just get information about our parks system that we have paid for?
Could not get past this requirement to use any desired app features. Will eagerly re-review once fixed.
Developer Response ,
Hello Roger. The location services feature of the app is optional. Once you select "do not allow" the app to see your location, the maps will be visible but without your location pin. We hope that this helps resolve your issue.
App Privacy
The developer, Parks Canada / Parcs Canada, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Parks Canada
- Size
- 111.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2023 Parcs Canada / Parks Canada
- Price
- Free