The park covers 44 840 square kilometers of mountainous terrain on which we can distinguish high-altitude prairies,  plateau traversed by rivers, bogs, delta Peace and Athabasca rivers, forming a different living environment for diverse wildlife. Living here about 5000 bison and moose, caribou, wolves, bears, beavers wet areas, minks, foxes in the forests, lynx, ermine, red squirrel. Park area is inhabited since the end of the Ice Age. Cree tribal culture, led lifestyle adapted to existing conditions there. Their descendants have their headquarters here today also.