Baie-aux-Feuilles National Park Reserve in Quebec, Canada - map and visitor information

Research checked: 2026-10-24. Check linked official information for current status and access conditions.

Réserve de parc national de la Baie-aux-Feuilles is a provincial protected area in Nunavik, northern Québec. Its name refers to a national park reserve, a designation distinct from an established national park. The territory lies near the Leaf estuary, northwest of Kuujjuaq. The protected reserve and the project to create a national park have distinct histories.

A Québec national park reserve

The Québec protected-area register lists Baie-aux-Feuilles as a national park reserve under the responsibility of the Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. This is a Québec designation, rather than a Parks Canada unit.

The registered reserve is a defined protected territory. References to a proposed Baie-aux-Feuilles national park or its study area should not be treated as interchangeable maps of that reserve.

Location and protected territory

The reserve covers approximately 3,868 square kilometers in Nord-du-Québec. Québec’s 2008 description places it about 60 kilometers northwest of Kuujjuaq. That distance describes its geographic position; it is not a road journey or a route to an entrance.

Use the official territory record when identifying the reserve on a map. A point labeled with the reserve’s name represents a large area, not a visitor reception site.

The Leaf estuary landscape

The reserve borders one of northern Québec’s large river-estuary systems. In its 2008 conservation announcement, Québec described estuary tides reaching 17 meters. This figure explains the scale of the tidal setting; it is not a tide prediction for navigation.

The announcement places the reserve across the Ungava Bay Basin and Ungava Peninsula natural provinces. The reserve boundary and the wider Leaf Basin remain distinct geographic subjects.

Protection and the separate park project

Baie-aux-Feuilles was among the protected territories announced by Québec on October 7, 2008. The current register continues to identify the territory as a national park reserve.

The Kativik Regional Government’s 2020 financial notes describe research for the national park project starting in 2012 and a status report completed in 2015. The notes also record difficulties in delimiting the proposed park boundary. Those are historical milestones in park planning, rather than an opening schedule or a description of current visitor services.

Official reserve information

For current classification and questions about the exact territory, use the responsible Québec ministry’s biodiversity, wildlife, and parks information service: 1 877 346-6763 or [email protected]. Before arranging travel, confirm the current status and applicable access conditions with the ministry. An inquiry does not itself authorize entry.