60th Parallel

Located on the Waterfalls Route, it features a visitor centre, with highway and attractions information as well as displays, including a massive mounted Polar Bear. Enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee before heading North along the highway. Camping and a boat launch are available.

Twin Falls Territorial Park

60th Parallel

Located on the Waterfalls Route, it features a visitor centre, with highway and attractions information as well as displays, including a massive mounted Polar Bear. Enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee before heading North along the highway. Camping and a boat launch are available.

Twin Falls Territorial Park

This park on the Waterfalls route offers spectacular views of two waterfalls, Alexandra and Louise, on the Hay River. There’s a full service campground at Louise Falls and an interpretive trail joins the two.

Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park

The Slavey name means Trout River. This park is located near two dramatic waterfalls, Sambaa Deh and Coral Falls, and fossils can be seen in the limestone cliffs. There’s an attractive campground, trails, and good fishing.

Fort Simpson Territorial Park

This campground is located where the Mackenzie and Liard Rivers merge, next to the Papal Site, which Pope John Paul II visited in 1987. Fort Simpson is surrounded by a wetland which harbours migrating birds in season. The campground has a playground for children. There are walking trails, a visitor centre and a golf course nearby.

Blackstone Territorial Park

Blackstone Park is located on the Liard River and is a pull out point for Nahanni Park river trips. There’s a visitor information center and wilderness interpretation, and the campground features a boat launch with views of the Nahanni Range of mountains.

Hay River Territorial Park

The campground is located on Vale Island, on a sandy beach on Great Slave Lake, with playground, picnic shelter, visitor information and a boat launch.

Little Buffalo River Crossing Territorial Park

This is an excellent place to camp or just stop and drop a line in the river for pickerel or jackfish. A two to three minute paddle brings you to the mouth of the river and the shore of Great Slave Lake. There’s a boat launch here as well.

Queen Elizabeth Territorial Park

The park is located in Fort Smith. Attractions include the Slave River Rapids with its colony of pelicans, and the Fort Smith Mission Historic Park. There are several trails along the river. The Northern Life Museum in Fort Smith provides interesting insight into local wildlife and history.

Fort Smith Mission Historic Park

This park celebrates the story of the Roman Catholic Mission to the North. When the Slave River was the primary route north, all goods had to be transshipped here. The Oblates maintained a hospital, residential school, farm, facilities for Mission boats that plied northern rivers, and a sawmill. Informative signage is available for a self guided tour.

Fred Henne Territorial Park

Located on Long Lake, on the outskirts of Yellowknife, the park has a large campground, sandy beach, playground and boat launch, all popular with locals. A trail, featuring the geological history of the region, provides an opportunity to see gold bearing quartz veins in the glacier-smoothed rock.

Prelude Lake Territorial Park

Prelude Lake is on the Ingraham Trail, and offers a fully equipped campground, playground, sandy beach and boat launch. The lake is a starting point for several Ingraham Trail canoe routes, and ideal for some lazy fishing among the islands. The park includes a nature trail, with informative signage, and a short trail to two panoramic views of Prelude Lake.

Reid Lake Territorial Park

Situated in typical Precambrian Shield country, this park and campground on the Ingraham Trail features tent platforms with views, as well as regular campsites. There’s a boat launch leading to excellent power boating and canoe routes. The park is also close to Cameron Falls, a scenic park on the Cameron River..

Nitainlaii Territorial Park

Nitainlaii is on the Dempster Highway and the campground is located on a cliff overlooking the Peel River, nine km from Fort McPherson. A visitor information centre provides a fascinating glimpse into the traditional lives of the Gwich’in people.

Hidden Lake Territorial Park

This is a pretty lake on the Ingraham Trail and a favorite canoeing trip from Yellowknife. The Cameron Falls Trail provides access to the park. Trails also follow the river 9 km to the Cameron River Ramparts. There are no camping facilities, but canoeists regularly camp overnight.

Lady Evelyn Falls Territorial Park

A curtain of water drops over a limestone ridge near Kakisa. There is a campground, boat launch and good fishing nearby.

Fort Providence Territorial Park

At Fort Providence, on the south side of the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary, visitors can often spot wood bison nibbling the grass on local lawns. The campground is beside the swiftly flowing Mackenzie River.

Gwich'in Territorial Park

A campground and boat launch are located beside beautiful Campbell Lake. There's good fishing here.

Jak/ Happy Valley Parks

These are campgrounds at Inuvik at the end of the Dempster Highway. One is a hilltop park with magnificent view and one is located in downtown Inuvik overlooking the Mackenzie River. Inuvik has a visitor centre, plus good hiking trails and visitor services.

There are two private campgrounds in the Hay River area, one near the beach, and one in the market garden area. There is a Territorial park as well in Norman Wells, called McKinnon Park, on the banks of the Mackenzie River.