Welcome to the Park of the Month newsletter for July 2025. This month we’re featuring the largest national park in the world.
Northeast Greenland National Park
Location
Northeastern Greenland
Claim to fame
At 375,000 sq mi (972,000 sq km), Greenland’s only national park is also the world’s largest (for context, it is 100 times larger than America’s Yellowstone National Park). Bigger than 166 of the world’s 195 countries, it is the largest protected area in the world that isn’t mostly sea. Northeast Greenland National Park is also the northernmost national park in the world.
Reason to visit
Northeast Greenland National Park is not an easy one to visit, as 80% of its territory is covered by the massive Greenland Ice Sheet. There are no roads or accommodations in the park, and most visitors only tuck into its coastline via plane or boat. Cruise ship expeditions from the coastal communities south of the park are the most common ways to see it.
Wild Fact
Northeast Greenland National Park is an important conservation site for some of the Arctic’s most threatened and iconic species of wildlife. The park is home to polar bears, walruses, narwhals, muskoxen, and the extremely rare Artic wolf (a subspecies of the gray wolf that only lives in Greenland and Northern Canada).
The park is also a key feeding and breeding ground for birds, although the long winters are so harsh that only two birds–ravens and ptarmigans–live there year-round.
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