Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is the smallest National Park of Uganda. It covers an area of 33.7 km.sq and is located in the Southwestern part of Uganda. The Park was founded in 1991 and happened to be one of the few national parks in the World that habour mountain gorillas the rest being Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Park’s most prominent features are the three of the Virunga’s six extinct cones. These are Muhabura (4127m), Sabinyo (3669m) and Gahinga (3474m). Despite being small, the park is an area of high biodiversity, high endemism and an important water catchment. It is habitat to over 40 known species of mammals including the endangered mountain gorillas and rare golden monkeys, over 100 species of birds including some Albertine Rift endemics, diverse vegetation types including woodlands, bamboo forest and afro-alpine and ericaceous among others.

Eight tourists’ activities are conducted in Mgahinga National Park

Gorilla Trekking is the major activity carried out in Mgahinga gorilla National Park. In addition to that activity, golden monkey tracking, mountain climbing where the park has three dormant volcanoes within its heart where visitors can do hiking adventures, golden monkey habituation experience, Batwa cultural experience, birding, nature walks and children-based activities are also tourism activities carried out in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.