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The Dempster Highway in all its midnight sun summer glory

Your guide to the road less travelled

If you’re looking for the road less travelled, hit the gas – the rugged highways of Canada’s Northwest Territories are gateways to a world you never knew existed. The highways that wander through the tundra and wildlife-lined trails of the Northwest Territories see few visitors each year. What they do offer is the Northwest Territories at its wildest and most free.

Here, you’ll find an endless hinterland of evergreens, virgin rivers and lakes so big they could pass for freshwater seas. Fishing spots and duck-ponds dot the roadsides, while bison and bears walk the centerlines, unfazed by the occasional motorist. That’s the charm of this place: Whether it’s the woods, the wildlife, or the colourful locals whose traditions remain vibrantly alive, what you’ll witness on a Northwest Territories roadtrip is the real deal.

girl looking over Alexandra Falls off Mackenzie Highway

Mackenzie Highway

Alexandra Falls:
Kilometre 72: The first roadside pull-off in the Northwest Territories is a good one: the Alexandra Falls overlook in Twin Falls Gorge Territorial Park. Here, just metres from the highway, the Hay River leaps over a 33-metre-high cliff and into a sheer-sided gorge. The three-kilometre walking trail from here to the somewhat less steep, but no less impressive, Louise Falls, downstream, is a great way to stretch your legs after the long haul from Northern Alberta.

Lady Evelyn Falls:
Kilometre 167: Seven kilometres down a sideroad is another of the Northwest Territories’ impressive cascades: crescent-shaped, 17-metre-high Lady Evelyn Falls on the Kakisa River, not far downstream from the traditional, log-cabin village of Kakisa. There’s an idyllic, piney campground here, and good fishing at the base of the falls.

Sambaa Deh Falls:
Kilometre 323: The highlight of the route toward Fort Simpson is Sambaa Deh Falls. Here, almost directly beneath the highway-bridge, the Trout River tumbles into a canyon and explodes into furious whitewater. A trail downriver leads to good fishing in the gorge; upriver is the more placid Coral Falls. The nearby campground is peaceful and verdant.

Fort Simpson:
Kilometre 474: Founded some 200 years ago as a fur-trading post called Fort of the Forks, this laid-back little town lies at the sweeping confluence of the Mackenzie and Liard Rivers. It’s this area’s regional hub, the gateway to Nahanni National Park Reserve, and a place where the North’s past remains very much present. While you’re here:

  • At the visitor centre, arrange a tour of historic McPherson House and the cabin of eccentric Nahanni-area trapper Albert Faille.
  • Stroll along the riverfront and through Papal Flats, where thousands gathered to welcome Pope John Paul II in his landmark visit to the North in 1987.
  • Take a daylong flightseeing tour of Nahanni National Park Reserve, with stops at 30-storey-tall Virginia Falls and mountain-flanked Little Doctor and Glacier Lakes.

Franklin Mountains:
Kilometres 594-694: Rugged mountains arise an hour past Fort Simpson on the gravel road to Wrigley. Here, after ferrying across the Mackenzie at Camsell Bend, you’ll encounter the rolling Franklin Range, the territory’s easternmost peaks. Hilltop vantage points are numerous, offering big views of the river and the distant, and even more impressive, Mackenzie Mountains.

Dempster Highway with Franklin Mountains in the background

Dempster Highway

Tombstone Territorial Park:
Kilometre 71: The Tombstones are a set of sawtoothed, gravity defying spires. Viewing them from your vehicle is great; taking a hike to get a closer view is even better. The nearby Dempster Interpretive Centre can give you details.

Arctic Circle:
Kilometre 329: The Arctic Circle is the North’s most intriguing invisible landmark, and the Dempster is the only highway to cross it. Here, at a scenic pull-off amid the Richardson Mountains, you can park your car during the night of the summer solstice and watch the sun not set.

Inuvik:
Kilometre 734: Here, where the Dempster Highway dead-ends just upstream from the Arctic Ocean, Canada’s largest Arctic town was purpose-built half a century ago. Now with more than 3,000 residents, Inuvik – constructed entirely on pilings to prevent it from melting into the permafrost – is the regional centre of the Western Arctic and the gateway to several impressive parks. While you’re here:

  • Explore area craft shops specializing in Dene and Inuit art or, even better, visit during the mid-July Great Northern Arts Festival.
  • Continue on to Tuktoyaktuk on the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway, ending at the Arctic Coast, where some of the world’s largest pingos erupt from the landscape.
  • For the more adventuresome, use Inuvik as the jumping-off point for adventures in Tuktut Nogait or Aulavik, or to historic Herschel Island.
A bison on the road to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Yellowknife Highway

Bison:
Kilometres 25-245: Among the Northwest Territories’ various highway-side beasts, by far the most visible are the wood bison that stroll along the Fort Providence–Behchoko corridor. Larger and darker than their southern cousins, these ungulates seem to enjoy the highway’s bug-beating breezes. If they’re on the road – and they almost always are – keep your distance, stay in your vehicle, and don’t disturb them.

Great Slave Lake:
Kilometre 232: This highway flanks the world’s ninth-largest lake. Alas, except for a few viewpoints, Great Slave is veiled by roadside boreal forest. Your first chance to gaze at the water comes at North Arm Territorial Park, a picnic area lapped by the chilly surf. This is a good place to launch a kayak or, if the day is boiling hot, cool off with a lightning-quick dip in the water.

Yellowknife:
Kilometre 340: Yellowknife has a big appeal to visitors, thanks to its scenic setting on outcrops overlooking Great Slave Lake, and due to its diversity of sights, shops and eateries. With nearly 20,000 people, the city is the territorial capital and its business and government hub. The gold mines that led to Yellowknife’s founding in the 1930s are now all closed, but diamond-mining north of the city has added new sparkle to the economy. While you’re here:

  • Stroll (or paddle) around Old Town, where goldrush-era shacks jostle for lakeside space with architecturally elaborate homes.
  • Check out the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, the North’s biggest museum, with displays on Indigenous and non-Aboriginal culture and history.
  • Take a flightseeing tour to Great Slave’s East Arm, where granite cliffs drop into pristine bays and outsized Trout swim in the deepest lake-waters on the continent.
A picturesque campsite at Prelude Lake Territorial Park

Ingraham Trail

Prelude Lake:
Kilometre 28: Just a few clicks off the Ingraham Trail in a territorial park, this big lake is Yellowknife’s cottage country. On sunny summer days, hikers and mountain-bikers populate the boreal trails; power boaters and canoeists ply the waters; kids and sun-worshippers luxuriate on the little beach; and campfires and barbecues are everywhere.

 

Cameron Falls:
Kilometre 46: From the parking lot, a one-kilometre trail undulates through aspen, spruce and jackpine to reach a precipice overlooking this 17-metre-high froth of whitewater – a cross between a waterfall and a really big rapids. Just upstream, a pedestrian bridge takes you to the far side of the cascade.

 

Tibbitt Lake:
Kilometre 67: At the end of the Ingraham Trail, this is where, in winter, the territory’s famous ice-road heads off toward the diamond mines. In summer, it’s a different kind of trailhead: the put-in for several of the excellent day- and multi-day canoeing routes found along the Ingraham Trail.

Wood Buffalo National Park awaits at the end of the highway to Fort Smith, NWT

Fort Smith Highway

Wood Buffalo National Park:
Kilometre 96: The North’s original national park and Canada’s second-biggest, Wood Buffalo is a Switzerland-sized preserve established in 1922 to protect rare, one-tonne wood bison. More than 5,000 of the beasts now patrol the park, along with other creatures like endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s highest-latitude reptiles, red-sided garter snakes. Visitors can view these animals from the park’s campgrounds and trails, or by going paddling or taking flightseeing tours.

 

Sinkholes:
Kilometre 106: Just inside Wood Buffalo National Park is the sizable Angus Sinkhole. It’s an example of the area’s “gypsum karst topography,” meaning it was created when subterranean water eroded the rock, leaving a big crater in the landscape. A trail circles the crater, and there’s a firetower, picnic site and playground here, too.

 

Salt Plains:
Kilometre 231: From here, a narrow, rutted 13-kilometre sideroad leads to one of the North’s weirdest places: the salt plains of Wood Buffalo National Park. From the overlook and trails you can get a good view of this crusty white moonscape, the result of saltwater welling up from an ancient seabed. Strange, saline-tolerant plants are all that thrives here. Keep an eye out for wildlife tracks embedded in the ground.

 

Fort Smith:
Kilometre 267: Once the territory’s de facto capital, sleepy Fort Smith perches high on the banks of the Slave River at the terminus of the old portage-route around the furious Slave River Rapids. Now a government and education centre, the town is a friendly mixture of First Nations, Métis and non-Aboriginal cultures. While you’re here:

  • Check out the excellent Northern Life Museum and Cultural Centre, with displays on everything from the revolutionary Conibear trap, invented by local Frank Conibear, to Canus, the whooping-crane sire who largely saved his species from extinction.
  • Walk the extensive boreal trails along the Slave River, where pelicans fish in the rapids and world-class whitewater kayakers come to play.
The Liard Trail is home to herds of wild bison in the Northwest Territories

Liard Trail

Alaska Highway Junction:
Kilometre 0: Less than 30 kilometres north of the Northern B.C. gas-and-lumber town of Fort Nelson, the Liard Trail joins the Alaska Highway, permitting travellers to make a vast loop through the Northwest Territories: up the Liard Highway, east along the Mackenzie Highway and back down through Northern Alberta. Alternatively, the drive up the Liard Trail to Fort Simpson is a diverting sidetrip for Alaska-bound motorists.

 

Fort Liard:
Kilometre 109: Six kilometres west of the highway is little, riverfront Fort Liard. There’s a campground here that’s popular with buffalo, and a visitor centre/giftshop that sells just about the finest Dene crafts in the territory, including birchbark baskets decorated with dyed porcupine quills.

 

Blackstone Landing:
Kilometre 288: This idyllic campground, halfway between Fort Liard and Fort Simpson, is washed by the broad Liard River just downstream from its confluence with the Nahanni. Across the river the Mackenzie Mountains loom. Inside the interpretive centre are interesting displays on area history and culture; outside are bears (sometimes) and mosquitoes (always).

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Dancing Skies is a new tour operator in Yellowknife, led by an experienced northern lights chaser and photographer with a passion for contemplation. Specializing in private tours and small groups of up to 5 people, we prioritize silent, serene observation and photography of the aurora, far from the crowds. With expertise in Space Weather data, […]...

Huge Lake Trout caught by fisherman holding it up with a friend next to him on a boat and on sunny day in Kasba lake in the Northwest Territories.

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Kasba Lake Lodge

Multi-day Trips Summer

World Class Fishing Within Reach Yet Beyond Belief For 3 generations we have been honing the Kasba experience to be like no-other. Our level of hospitality, dedication to the fishery, and a legendary passion for the experience that permeates through our entire team is undeniably contagious. No matter what you’re looking for in your fishing […]...

My Backyard Tours city tour with visitors on a trail in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories.

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My Backyard Tours

We offer winter clothing rentals. Our winter clothing will keep you warm and comfortable for your outdoor fun – ask us......

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Arctic Tours Canada

Arctic Tours Canada is a Yellowknife based tour operating company that offer Aurora Hunting and Viewing tours, Yellowknife sightseeing tours,......

Black Feather - the wilderness adventure company logo with picture of a yellow canoe and a paddler in the Nahanni National Park.

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Black Feather - The Wilderness Adventure Company

Multi-day Trips

For over 50 years, Black Feather has had the opportunity to operate canoe, hiking and sea kayaking expeditions throughout the......

Narwal Northern Adventures voyageur canoe on Great Slave Lake

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NARWAL Northern Adventures

Northern and Remote Wilderness Adventures Ltd. (NARWAL) is a small, friendly, majority Aboriginal owned and operated family business. Our reputation......

Old Town Glassworks in Yellowknife and some cool glassware with animal etching made there.

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Old Town Glassworks

Etching popular northern designs on unique 100% recycled glass, since 1994. Visit our gift shop in Old Town or come......

Yellow Dog Lodge aerial view among trees on a bright sunny day along the Duncan and Graham lakes in the Northwest Territories.

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Yellow Dog Lodge, Inc.

Multi-day Trips Northern Lights Summer

Yellow Dog Lodge is a comfortable lodge with 3 private cabins for our guests. The lodge is a short (15 minute) floatplane ride from Yellowknife. Located on Duncan and Graham Lakes, the lodge is your hub for adventure. Choose from an additional 5 lakes for guided day trip excursions. Each lake is unique and offers unspoiled first class fishing. We are the only lodge that operates guided trips on each of these remote lakes located in the NWT taiga wilderness. Packaged trips feature superb sport fishing and safe outdoor adventure. The lakes and streams offer the finest Lake Trout, Northern Pike, Walleye and Arctic Grayling in the region. As an added bonus, our guests will enjoy the midnight sun and may even catch the northern lights later in the fall or early spring....

A Dall Sheep peeking its head out of the brush in the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories.

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Gana River Outfitters Ltd.

Gana River Outfitters is a family owned and operated outfitting business offering remote wilderness hunts in the beautiful Mackenzie Mountains......

Multi-layered Waterfall in Hay River with three people on a grey speed boat passing by in Northwest Territories.

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2 Seasons Adventures

2 Seasons Adventures is a family-owned company. Our professional guides boast a lifetime of experience enjoying the unique lifestyle of......

Aurora Village Sport Fishing

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Aurora Village Sport Fishing

Offering fishing trips from May to September....

Aerial view over Peterson's Point Lake Lodge in the Northwest Territories.

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Peterson's Point Lake Lodge

Peterson’s Point Lake Lodge provides you access to known waters teeming with monster lake trout. Their current record is a......

The green aurora dancing in the sky above the Raven Tours cabin in Yellowknife, NWT in the winter.

Raven Tours

Raven Tours is a tour operator in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. We offer Aurora Viewing, Snowshoeing, and Hiking Tours. We hope to......

Jeep Gladiator under the blazing green northern lights in Yellowknife with Lonely Traveler.

Lonely Traveler

Our goal is to provide unique customized services for high-end customers. We excel at making personalized tours. You can see......

Ahmic Air De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk. I Beaver plane in Northwest Territories Canada.

Ahmic Air Ltd.

Floatplane charter service using classic DHC-2 Beaver aircraft based in Yellowknife’s historic Old Town. Sightseeing flights over Yellowknife and surrounding......

Sandy Point Wilderness Lodge by Gordon Lake on a sunny day in the Northwest Territories.

Sandy Point Wilderness Lodge

Exceptional fishing on Gordon Lake, 100 km northeast of Yellowknife. Fish for Lake Trout, up to to 56 lbs! Fly in by......

A group of guests with Air Tindi on Nahanni Scenic Floatplane tour in the NWT.

Air Tindi - Tours

Air Tindi is an airline company based in Yellowknife offering flights to a number of diverse destinations within Canada’s spectacular Northwest Territories!......

Arctic Motorcycle Adventures with a motorcycle parked at sunset in the Western Arctic Region of the NWT.

Arctic Motorcycle Adventures

Our vision is to see the Beaufort-Delta Region of Canada’s western arctic become the dream destination for motorcycle adventure enthusiasts from......

Pehdzeh Ki First Nations picture of picnic benches on a cloudy day in Wrigley with the Mackenzie mountain range in the background in the NWT.

Pehdzeh Ki First Nation

Pehdzeh Ki First Nation is located in the community of Wrigley, Northwest Territories, Canada. We are a Designated Authority in......

Ena Lake Lodge and lake aerial view on a sunny day at the 60th Parallel with boats parked along shore.

Ena Lake Lodge

Ena Lake Lodge is a one-of-a-kind, all-inclusive luxury fishing and outdoors experience in Northern Canada. Come and experience authentic fly-in......

Grey Goose Lodge exterior picture surrounded by trees and the Great Bear Lake at sunset in Deline in the Northwest Territories.

Grey Goose Tours & Lodge

Welcoming and friendly with a rustic charm and all modern conveniences, Grey Goose Lodge immediately catches your eye as you......

Arctic Safaris man taking a photo in the Barrenlands in the Northwest Territories.

Arctic Safaris

Fishing and Barrenlands wildlife photography, including migrating caribou, at the Obstruction Rapids in the central Barrenlands north of Yellowknife....

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Northwest Territories Parks

To truly experience the Northwest Territories, take your camping gear for a highway driving adventure! Long ribbons of road without......

Three hikers resting on a hill overlooking mountains near Dechenla Wilderness Lodge in the NWT

Dechenla Wilderness Resort

Remote naturalist’s lodge snuggled in the Mackenzie Mountains, in the largest mountain wilderness in North America. Located along the Canol......

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