The park is home to Cape Churchill, which is renowned as the best location in the world to view and photograph wild polar bears.

[4] Established in 1996, Wapusk National Park is 11,475 square kilometres (4,430 sq mi) of protected diverse and remote wilderness, located in Northeast Manitoba along the coast of Hudson Bay.

[6] The park is also characterized by being part of a large transitional zone between the three biomes of arctic tundra, marine, and boreal forest.

Wapusk National Park lies on the traditional territories of many Indigenous communities such as the Cree of York Factory, Fox Lake, Sayisi-Dene, and Inuit.

In summer, the polar bears of Wapusk National Park come ashore as the ice on the Hudson Bay melts entirely, waiting on the tundra until the water freezes again in November.

[11][12] Wapusk National Park shares its southwestern border with the Churchill Wildlife Management Area (WMA) which was established in 1978.

[5] Wapusk National Park itself was established to protect the area which is a unique transitional zone between three biomes and the existing strong biodiversity among plant and animal species.

[8] They work with a variety of external organizations including researchers, provincial governments, and indigenous communities to monitor human and natural change to strengthen resiliency and persistence within ecosystems.

[15] The climate here is subarctic and wet, having many rivers and bogs called "Muskeg" by the indigenous Cree people native to that area.

[8] The historical geology of the Wapusk National Park shows sequences of Palaeozoic aged rocks running northwest to southeast of the map.

[23] The Inuit critiqued various proposed management strategies and changes to the national park, for it impacted their traditional practices.

[23] Other challenges for Indigenous participation in decision making processes for Wapusk National Park have included geographic isolation from decision-making facilities, and a lack of communication from stakeholders.

During the summer, Wapusk is known for their ponds, peat bogs, and small 6.5 foot trees that have remained standing for hundreds of years.

It is in the winter when an estimated thousand polar bears make their way through Cape Churchill to familiarize themselves with the cooler weather conditions.

Other species of birds that can be spotted are great grey owls, stilt sandpipers, snow geese, arctic loons, Caspian terns, peregrine falcons, and much more.

Other species of plants that bloom at Wapusk are alpine azalea, common yarrow, wild rosemary, roundleaf orchis, cutleaf anemone, field wormwood, and fireweed.

[29] This data is based on the Qamanirjuaq herd which covers areas in Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories.

[16][8] This has negative impacts on reproduction in terms of litter size, cub mass, survival of dependent young, etc., and affects the overall abundance of polar bears.

[7] Lichens are the primary food of caribou in winter, are very sensitive to impact and can all die in an area after only low levels of trampling.

[7] Increased tourism can create problems for the species living in Wapusk National Park that are already struggling from climate change and habitat loss.