Driving North – On the Road to Great Slave Lake, NWT, now on Amazon
Have you
ever wondered about a road trip to the far north, north of the Sixtieth
Parallel? Well, here is your chance to read
about three road trips, through the Peace River country and the northern
Rockies, all the way to the shores of Great Slave Lake, just south of the
Arctic Circle.
follows our intrepid travellers north to Yellowknife,
among other historic and wild destinations.
Enjoy an adventure and plot your own, to the true north strong and free.
Just
$1.99 on Amazon, or free if you have Kindle Unlimited.
The highways in northern Alberta and the Northwest
Territories give one the opportunity to drive pretty far north, without a lot
of elaborate preparations and extreme expense. Starting from Edmonton, one can
drive as far north as Yellowknife, NWT, without leaving the hardtop, so an
average vehicle can do the trip. There are a reasonable number of fair sized
towns along the way, so accommodations are not much of a problem, either. The
same goes for food, gasoline and other essentials.
One can also link up with the Alaska Highway, and the Dempster Highway, and
make it all the way to the Arctic Ocean. But that’s another story.
Trip number 1 involved driving north through Alberta, visiting several areas of
interest along the way, then into the Northwest Territories, to Hay River on
the southern shore of Great Slave Lake. The return trip featured a drive
through the north-central foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Trip number 2 was a combined air and car trip. We went to Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories by airplane, then rented a car to explore much of the
area of the north shore of Great Slave Lake.
Trip number 3 was a return to Hay River, with a different travelling companion.
This allowed one to retrace steps, compare and contrast, and focus on some
areas that we had not had time to explore in depth on trip number 1.
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