Yellowknife Travel Guide

The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is the main territorial museum located in Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, set beside Frame Lake. It systematically presents Canadian northern Indigenous cultures, history, and the natural history and mining development of the Northwest Territories, serving as a window into northern life, customs and cold-climate ecology.

The Bush Pilots Monument is a rocky hilltop memorial above Yellowknife's Old Town, honouring the bush pilots who lost their lives flying missions over the vast wilderness of the Northwest Territories. It also serves as a scenic high point overlooking Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife Bay, the Old Town and the surrounding islands.

Yellowknife, capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, sits on the north shore of Great Slave Lake and is called the 'Aurora Capital of the World' — near the magnetic latitude with many clear nights, it is among the most reliable places on Earth to see the Northern Lights. The town blends Indigenous culture, gold-rush history and modern polar life: Old Town cabins, a mint ruins site, lakeside trails and aurora cabins create a distinct northern character.

Great Slave Lake is the seventh-largest lake in North America and Canada's second-largest by area, plunging deeper than 600 m, just south of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. Its clear, cold waters sit among forest and tundra — superb for fishing, boating and birding. In winter the frozen surface becomes a natural icefield famed for aurora viewing and dog-sledding; summer brings lake light under the midnight sun.