There’s a secret among Northerners in the NWT – yes, for much of the year the territory is chilly with frozen lakes and blanketed in snow, but there’s a region that heats up quicker than the rest of the territory, maybe even quicker than the rest of the country. We’re talking about the Banana Belt of the North – the Dehcho.
Named for the mammoth river that winds its way to the Arctic Ocean, the Mackenzie River, known around here as the Deh Cho or “Big River,” the Dehcho Region of the NWT reaches those golden summer temperatures a solid month before Yellowknife, Hay River and Inuvik.
