One thing is certain: you will not find many tourists around Virginia Falls. Located in the Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories, the only way to visit the falls is by renting a float plane from Fort Liard of Fort Simpson. The plane can land above the falls, and you have to hike from there. The main feature of this spectacular park is the powerful whitewater Naha Dehé (South Nahanni River), which is lined with four canyons until it splits into two segments around Mason’s Rock, a 400-foot tall limestone spire. One segment falls 294 feet directly to the river below, and another slides along the rocks before falling 170 feet. Nailicho (Virginia Falls) are massive, 800 feet wide and spanning four acres in surface. Only the remote location prevents this grandiose fall from becoming one of the fabled Canadian falls like Niagara.

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