Wasgamuwa National Park is a recently accessed natural forest in the wilderness of Sri Lanka situated in the North Central part of the Pearl of the Orient in the Matale and Polonnaruwa Districts. It was declared as a National Park in order to protect and to make a refuge for the displaced wild animals during the Mahaweli Hydro Power & Agriculture Development Project in the vicinity in 1984 and is one of the four National Parks designated under the Project.

It is a wilderness in the interior part of the Central and North Central provinces adjoining the north-western part of the Gal-Oya National Park, so it is full of lush greenery suitable for all kinds of wildlife.

Elephants like this place as it is packed with estuaries where they hang out for the moisture drinking and playing with the water and the sinking mud. Wasgamuwa is derived from Walass gamuwa meaning Bear Wood, so there are plenty of sloth bears in the park.