Those Young Guys – Finding Our Way
The last territorial park you will pass heading east along the Ingraham Trail is Reid Lake Territorial Park. A beautiful park on the lake. If you go on a weekend in summer make sure you have a reservation as it gets full from all the locals in Yellowknife. Don’t camp
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The Ingraham Trail, also known as Highway 4, extends east from Yellowknife all the way to Tibbitt Lake, about 70 kilometers. It is also known as the “Road to Resources” into the interior of the Arctic. There are a number of recreational activities along the trail with many lakes, territorial
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Touring Yellowknife! Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories and is located on the northern shore of the Great Slave Lake. It sits about 250 miles south of the Arctic Circle and has a population of approximately 20,000 people. Even though it gets quite cold in the winter it
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A great place to stay while touring around Yellowknife! Lots of nice large sites! But it does fill up. The dump and the fresh water were broken when we were there. OK, now what? No one seemed to know where we could get any water. So, we drove around town
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Fires, buffalo, and ferries! The north is known for its huge wildfires during their hot dry summers. I mean HUGE, bigger than people in the lower 48 can imagine or comprehend. As we were driving along the MacKenzie Highway we could see and smell smoke from a long distance away.
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Campground: Lady Evelyn Falls Territorial Park Location: Kakisa, Northwest Territories Services: Dry camp Comments: If you love falls, this is the place. There was only one other camper there when we visited and they left early in the morning. That meant we were the only ones around for miles and
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We stopped by the falls for the day en route to our next destination. We had a hike over to the falls and a nice picnic lunch. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Link to Map in “Where We’ve Been”
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A slice of heaven in the middle of nowhere. Close to Nahanni National Park Reserve with over 7 million acres and home to over 500 grizzly bears. Nahanni Park is only accessible by boat or float plane/helicopter. Many wilderness adventures depart from Lindberg Landing which is only 3 kilometers from
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What a great place to visit. Nice museum, nice parks, and beautiful, isolated, and part of the real wilderness. A great general store. The roads were fine. A few weeks earlier the roads were impassable but the crews worked hard and fast to grade them and get them drivable. We
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A stop along the Alaska Highway at Fort Nelson. A good place to stop by the general store to pick up any last minute supplies before heading up the Liard Highway 77 to the Northwest Territories. Stop by “Trapper’s Den Wildlife Emporium” to pick up any moose horns or furs
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