Gatineau Park (French: Parc de la Gatineau) is a park located in the National Capital Region, in Quebec's Outaouais region, just north of Ottawa, Ontario. Administered by the National Capital Commission, the park is a 361 km² wedge of land to the west of the Gatineau River. With a circumference of 179.2 km, the park includes parts of the municipalities of Chelsea, Pontiac, La Pêche, and the City of Gatineau.
Although advocated by Dominion Parks Commissioner James Harkin to be the first national park outside the Rocky Mountains, it remains the only federal park that is not a national park, a situation that has direct repercussions on its ecology, boundaries, and land mass.
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