Take in our music and art festivals, spring carnivals and outdoor sporting events in spring, summer, autumn or winter.

The long days of northern spring offer great opportunities for snowmobiling, skiing and ice fishing. Bundle up and get out of doors!

Our land is both beautiful and unforgiving. Learn how to stay safe.

Adventures on the Ice Roads

Winter travel takes on new excitement when you drive our Northwest Territories ice roads. They really are made of ice in places – up to a metre, or a yard, thick. Built across tundra, lakes and rivers, they provide links to our remote, off-highway communities for a few weeks each winter. Northerners travel ice roads by car and truck, dogteam and snowmobile. Our outfitters will take you on a winter road tour, or you can rent a vehicle and plan your own ice road trip.

Before you travel our winter roads, be sure you're well prepared with cold-weather gear and emergency supplies. For up-to-date information about highway conditions, ice roads and ice-bridge crossings be sure to check with the NWT Department of Transportation.

Ice Roads

Sambaa K'e Development Corporation

Yellowknife Outdoor Adventures

Join us on a 2, 4 or 6 hour ice road tour. Departs from Yellowknife with a tour of Old Town and local art galleries.

North Star Adventures

Drive on the frozen lakes of Canada's north! Listen to the ice crack, learn how ice roads are made and how is serves as an important transportation link for many northern communities during the winter months!

Hearne Lake Lodge

Hearne Lake Lodge is accessible by snowmobile on the old ice road to the Bull Moose and Beaulieu gold mines. Trail starts at Reid Lake Camp Ground. There are 9 portages/land bridges to Hearne Lake Lodge. It is a leisurely 2 hour ride by snowmobile.

MacKay Lake Lodge (True North Safaris Ltd.)

In the winter, drive the longest ice road in the world to a diamond mine. Photo opportunities include the winter landscape, arctic wildlife and the aurora. The barren lands are truly the home of the aurora or spirit walker. It is so vivid at times that you can almost hear...

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