Algonquin Park is famous for its wolves, partly because the Park has been a major centre of wolf research since the 1960s, but also because our wolves are relatively accessible to millions of people without the benefit of guides or expensive expeditions into remote areas. Indeed, we feel safe in claiming that more people have had first-hand experience with wolves right along Highway 60 in the southern part of Algonquin than in almost any other place in the world. Such contact has been of tremendous importance to wolves and wolf conservation because it has helped to dispel many deep-rooted prejudices against wolves. In much of the world and for most of recorded human history, wolves have been the subject of unrelenting persecution. Only in the last years of the twentieth century did that begin to change, at least in North America and Europe, and we are proud that Algonquin Park continues to make a significant contribution towards the emerging new attitudes towards wolves and the growing hope that they can survive in our world.

Most people visiting Algonquin never actually get a chance to see a wolf—the chances of seeing a shy, timid animal in thickly forested country like Algonquin are few to say the least. The first-hand wolf experience we are speaking of above is its voice—the wolf howl. Many visitors to Algonquin have had the thrill of lying in their tents or sitting around their campfire and hearing in the distance a spine-tingling chorus of wolves. Many more visitors have heard wolves by participating in a Public Wolf Howl—an event that is part of the Park's Summer Interpretive Program.

We are very fortunate in Algonquin to have a population of this magnificant animal, in an area within a few hours drive from major city centres—a claim that unfortunately cannot be made in many other places!

Want to learn more?

What are the wolves of Algonquin?
Are Algonquin's wolves in danger?
How wolves live in Algonquin.
Wolf Howling
Wolf Research in Algonquin Park