Northwest Territories


How to Get Here by Road Three highways link our northern communities to Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta. Drive up the Alaska Highway through Yukon to link to the NWT’s Dempster Highway. Follow Alberta Highway 35 north to connect to NWT Highway 1, the Mackenzie Highway. British Columbia Highway 77 connects to NWT Highway 7, the Liard Highway.


DID YOU KNOW. . . Clients in a large Truck/Camper - Photo by Karl-Heinz Raach, courtesy of Westcoast Mountain Campers, Vancouver, BC


Salt Plains The Salt Plains, extending over 200 square kilometres, are extremely rare, and one of the reasons Wood Buffalo Park was declared a World Heritage Site. Salt bubbles up in springs across the plains, in some places forming mounds up to two metres high. In spring the salt is dispersed across the landscape forming white patterns on the land. The salt is pure table salt, deposited many millions of years ago. The area has a range of unique salt tolerant plant life. In the past, the Roman Catholic Mission and the Hudson’s Bay Company harvested


SPRING & FALL EVENTS


Dawson Creek Exhibition & Stampede Dawson Creek, August 4-9


Annual Seafest Prince Rupert, June 12-14


International Chainsaw Championships


Chetwynd, June 11-14


Terrace Riverboat Days Terrace, July 31 - August 9


The Museum of Northern BC, located in Prince Rupert - Aboriginal Tourism Association of BC


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the salt for local distribution. Great Reading: Thebacha Trails, by Libby Gunn, provides an introduction to the natural world of Wood Buffalo.


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