Due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) the NWT borders are closed to all non-essential travel. For more information, see border information from the Government of the Northwest Territories at:
https://www.gov.nt.ca/covid-19/en/services/travel-moving-around/nwt-border-information.

A lonely shadow of a caribou sits on a mountain top as the sky fills with bright green aurora

7 REMARKABLE REASONS WHY THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES HAS THE FINEST AURORAS ON EARTH

A summertime arial shot of Wood Buffalo National Park

WOOD BUFFALO, THE PARK THAT LIVES LARGE VISITING CANADA'S LARGEST NATIONAL PARK

A historic ship sails quietly through an ice field in the Northwest Passage.

HERE'S THE HISTORY & MYSTERY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

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Couple paddling in canoe on the Mackenzie River

Explore the ancient Northern waterways

Whether you're an experienced wilderness canoe tripper, or just wanting to putter around the shore of a stunning Canadian Shield lake, the NWT is a paddler's paradise

A quiet stretch of the Broken Skull River in Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve

Surround yourself in the wildest wilderness

The national parks of the Northwest Territories are home to sacred mountains, world-famous rivers, bucket-level adventures and unspeakable beauty

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Northwest Territories Tourism is a not for profit organization, responsible to over 200 tourism business members in the Northwest Territories. We are the Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for the NWT tasked with marketing Northwest Territories Tourism (NWTT) products. NWTT promotes tourism product locally, nationally and internationally.

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