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Whether your kids love dinosaurs or butterflies, Viking tales or whale tails, stargazing or campfire sing-a-longs, there?s a Parks Canada destination guaranteed to have them yelling ?best day ever!?

To celebrate Canada?s 150th anniversary, Parks Canada is offering free admission to all national parks, national marine conservation areas and national historic sites with the 2017 Parks Canada Discovery Pass. Here are some of the best ones for families.
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1. Point Pelee National Park

Grab the binoculars, pack a picnic and make your way to Point Pelee National Park. It?s Canada?s smallest national park, but it?s also where the wild things are, with 386 (and counting) bird species spotted here. Located on Canada?s most southern tip, this Ontario oasis is one of the warmest and sunniest places in the country. With its vines and Virginia-creeper-draped sycamores on lush forest trails edging onto marshes, it has a Jungle Book vibe that mini explorers will love.
Bring the family to the Festival of Birds during spring migration to take part in the birders? breakfast, or paddle with guides, who?ll point out all the winged wildlife as well as frogs, crickets and eels. In mid-summer, you can take a ?Butterflies of the Night? (aka moth-spotting) tour, with stargazing thrown in for good measure. And in September catch the monarch butterflies on their mass exodus to Mexico.
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