In the remote southwest corner of Saskatchewan lies one of North America’s last great expanses of mixed-grass prairie — Grasslands National Park. Here the land still rolls in ancient waves of grass and weathered buttes under an immense prairie sky, a landscape that has changed little since the time of the great bison herds. This is a place of rare species, dark-sky nights, and deep human history: thousands of tipi rings still mark the ground where Indigenous peoples once followed the buffalo across these plains. Designated a national park and Dark Sky Preserve, Grasslands offers a rare chance to experience the Canadian prairie as it once was — open, wild, and quietly powerful.

This third coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s 2026 Canada’s National Parks series captures that spirit with striking beauty. Designed by Kerri Burnett, the selectively coloured reverse places a lone plains bison in the foreground, its powerful form rising from the silver grass as it surveys the rolling green-and-gold prairie under a clear blue sky. At the bottom, two bright red Adirondack chairs — the familiar Parks Canada invitation to pause and take in the view — sit ready for the visitor. Bilingual inscriptions name the park in English and French. Struck in 99.99% pure silver to proof quality and limited to a mintage of 7,000, the coin is presented in a black clamshell case, offering collectors a lasting window into one of Canada’s most evocative and least-altered natural landscapes.