The first national park of Canada. The national park with its humble beginning starting as a 26 square km hot spring to now the sprawling 6,641 square kilometres it covers. The park was inculcated as a UNESCO world heritage site as part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks in the year 1984. The park is located in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, to the west of Calgary. The national park borders British Columbia to its east where Yoho and Kootenay National park are adjacent to Banff National Park. On the western side, the park shares borders with Jasper National Park which is also situated in Alberta.