Kakum National Park

Kakum began life as the Kakum Forest Reserve in 1931, protecting the headwaters of the Kakum River until local communities—rather than the central wildlife service—pushed to elevate it to National Park status in 1992.

The park’s signature 350-metre canopy walkway, engineered in 1995 by a Ghanaian–Canadian team, turned Kakum into one of West Africa’s most visited attractions, while its 375 km² of Upper-Guinean rainforest now shelter Ghana’s densest population of forest elephants and have earned the site a place on UNESCO’s tentative World Heritage List.