Travel Alert--Remember to take passports to any of the Caribbean, Central American, Mexican, and Canadian locations. Even children traveling with their parents need passports.

Canada's largest and least populated region is the Northwest Territories; yet, it is the most spectacular to visit-year round! Where else can golfers enjoy 24 hours of sunlight to golf round-the-clock in June and July? The Northwest Territories span four time zones and includes many islands north of the Arctic Circle.


Visitors to the Northwest Territories can drive there via Alberta, British Columbia, or the Yukon. Rugged campers or four-wheel drive vehicles are the best mode of travel. Auto-tourists should plan on camping between population centers. There also are bus tours available for those who prefer to let someone else do the driving. Although hunting and fishing abound in the Northwest Territories, there are also wildlife preserves and sanctuaries where eco-tourists can enjoy birding, whale watching, or photographing many other species of animals including, muskoxen, wood buffalo, grizzly bears, moose, caribou, marten, polar bears, seals,and wolverines.

Outfitters are available year-round to assist visitors who want to explore the wilderness regions or go hunting,fishing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing,  cross-country skiing, dog sledding,  canoeing,  kayaking. The Northwest Territories has one of the top whitewater rafting rivers in the world: The Nahanni. Visitors wanting a special outdoor adventure can charter expeditions with guides and bush pilots to find some little traveled remote lakes and streams. The Northwest Territories has literally thousands of lakes and streams - many of which are unexplored and in the wilderness. The indigenous peoples, who are Cree and Eskimo depending on their location in the Northwest Territories, live in the population centers along the coasts of the Hudson Bay  and islands including, Baffin Island.

Other places to visit in the Northwest Territories are:

• The Mackenzie Mountains
• Nahanni National Park
• Fort Laird
• Fort Providence
• Great Slave Lake
• Great Bear Lake
• Fort Simpson
• Yellowknife
• Pine Point
• Fort Good Hope
• Norman Wells
• Inuvik
• Eskimo Point
• Baker Lake
• Chesterfield Inlet
• Lake Harbor
• Auyuittugq National Park

1. Visit the Yukon for exciting whitewater rafting;
2. Travel through the Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta; and
3. Flightsee with bush pilots through northern Quebec across the Hudson Strait from Baffin Island.