Outamba-Kilimi National Park is located in north-west Sierra Leone near the border with Guinea.

The area became a game reserve in 1974, and was formally gazetted as a National Park in October 1995.

Outamba is characterised by tall-grass savanna and woodland with patches of closed-canopy forest.

[2] Wildlife includes primates such as western chimpanzees, colobus monkeys and sooty mangabeys; hippopotamuses and pygmy hippos; forest elephantss; common warthogs; rare bongo antelopes and over a hundred species of birds.

Restrictions are fewer here: hunting is allowed, except for certain protected species; farming is practiced and areas of gmelina trees have been planted to replace the parkland as a source of wood for use as firewood and in making furniture and housing.