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Arctic Adventure Winter Tours

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Ice Road Tours

If you come to Inuvik in winter you can travel with us on the world's longest ice road! We will drive you 185 kilometers on the Mackenzie River ice from Inuvik to the Beaufort Sea and over to Tuktoyaktuk, an Inuvialuit village on the Arctic Ocean. You also get a tour of the village and will have the rare opportunity to see the incredible underground community ice house buried deep in the permafrost. (The visit to the ice house is only available to some tour operators). It's an unforgettable experience! Best time to travel the ice road is February through the middle of April.

SNOWMOBILE TOURS

On our snowmobile tours we offer you the option of driving your own machine (driving instructions included) or riding double with one of our guides.

Destination #1: THE ARCTIC LOON CABIN
(This tour is available with or without dinner at the cabin.)

This one-hour snowmobile trip each way takes you from the Arctic Chalet to a beautiful rustic cabin located in the Campbell Hills. This trip will take you on a scenic route over land and various frozen water ways and will include visiting some camps along the way. Upon arriving at the Arctic Loon cabin we will take you up to a look-out point for a great view of the lake and land beyond. This is truly a beautiful and remote northern destination! Tour length is about 2.5 Hours.

For those wanting dinner at the cabin we will take you inside for a cozy candlelight supper by the fireside. This full dinner features Arctic Char or Salmon and a nice desert. A vegetarian option is also available as Olav and Judi are both vegetarians.

At the cabin you can also enjoy a good soak in our popular outdoor cedar hot tub located on the deck overlooking the lake below. What a great way to end a winter day relaxing under the night sky looking at the stars, moon or northern lights! Tour length is about 4 hours.

Tour price without dinner: $185 per person
Tour price with dinner: $300 per person

Destination #2: THE CANADIAN REINDEER HERD

Come with us on an Arctic adventure for an exciting snowmobile day trip up into the barrens to visit the Canadian Reindeer Herd in their winter grazing area. We supply one snowmobile for each person to drive. The tour features a hearty lunch around a campfire next to the herd and time to visit with Henrik, the charming Sami reindeer herder. This is also a great opportunity for photographing this unique reindeer herd numbering about 2500 animals, which is one-of-a kind in all of Canada.

This guided tour is a fun snowmobile ride with several stops along the way to enjoy the views and take pictures of the beautiful and vast expanse of land up in the barrens above the tree line. When we reach the grazing area the reindeer herder, dressed in his traditional herding outfit, will meet the group and take us to the herd. Once we are at the herd we usually make a campfire and eat our lunch around the fire together with the Sami herder who will tell the group the history of the Canadian Reindeer herd and what it was like growing up in a family that has been herding reindeer for over 200 years. After the meal the herder will walk with a few people at a time, closer to the herd to get some great pictures. The herder then guides the group back to his cabin where some unique items such as reindeer antlers and a book about this reindeer herd are available to purchase. Then it’s back to Inuvik by snowmobile. The tour takes about 6 or 7 hours from start to finish.

Tour length: 6-7 hours
Tour price: $400 per person

Tour to See the Reindeer Herd Crossing (April)

During the first week of April we can drive you up the ice road on a tour to watch the Canadian Reindeer Herd cross the Mackenzie River on the ice. This event usually happens during the first week of April just before calving time. It is an impressive sight to watch as 2,500 reindeer cross the ice road together and head over to the island. Right after the crossing, we follow the herd by snowmobile to their birthing grounds on Richards Island where we can get much closer to the animals as they relax and begin to graze. This is a great opportunity to photograph the herd at close range. It also gives us time to talk with the Sami herder and to watch him at work with the herd. From that first week in April and on until the ice road closes near the end of the month we will be doing tours to the island to see the reindeer and their calves.

 

*Arctic Adventure Tours meets all of the licensing requirements and our guides are well trained to look after our clients. For the safety of those participating in our tours we carry emergency gear with us and maintain current certification to carry out Wilderness and Remote First Aid.

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Winter Dempster Highway Tour Package

Dempster Highway Fly/Drive from Whitehorse to Inuvik
$2,689 per person
GST extra

Tour Description:

Let us give you a trip of a lifetime with an interesting guide and experienced driver who is also a retired bush pilot that has flown in the Arctic for over 35 years. On this unique drive you will see the beauty and the wonder of the land in the far north from the ground and from the air.

The land along the Dempster is a pristine wilderness almost entirely unspoiled by mankind and presents itself fresh from the hand of the Creator. No wonder this drive is rated as one of North America's top ten drives! As Canada's most northern highway it is more like a very scenic back country road that stretches from the Yukon almost to the Arctic Ocean. The Dempster is 736 kilometers from the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. You will pass through three spectacular mountain ranges, cross the Arctic Circle, and travel on the ferries over two rivers in the vast Mackenzie Delta with a brief stop in Fort McPherson before reaching Inuvik. There you will continue your journey on the famous ice road to the remote Inuvialuit village of Tuktoyaktuk situated up on the Beaufort Sea. This trip includes an interesting tour of this Arctic Ocean village. You will get a tour of the fascinating underground community ice house buried deep in the permafrost. You will also learn how to drive a little team of snowy white huskies and go on a snowmobile tour that includes an Arctic Char dinner at a remote bush cabin about one hour from the Arctic Chalet. Let us give you that unique rich northern experience you have been dreaming about!

This tour is based on a minimum of four people traveling together but can be modified for just two. Your tour begins and ends in Whitehorse and is available from February 13 to March 30. Just to recap, this package includes the following: the road trip up the North Klondike and Dempster Highway with a guide/driver, a scenic dog sledding tour in the Mackenzie Delta, a snowmobile tour with Arctic Char dinner, the ice road trip to Tuk including a tour of the village, 5 nights accommodations, an airport shuttle, town shuttles or a courtesy vehicle and the flight back to Whitehorse from Inuvik.

While traveling in the north you will be on "northern time." In other words we hope that you will be flexible! All tours are subject to weather conditions and if necessary we will substitute a given tour for another activity. Be prepared for changes in scheduling. Please note that a non-refundable deposit will be required.

Itinerary

Sunday

Today we will drive from Whitehorse to Eagle Plains. You will be traveling through some wild and remote areas on the North Klondike highway and up the Dempster highway through the beautiful Tombstone and Ogilvie Mountains to Eagle Plains, the half-way point on the Dempster Highway where you will spend the night. There will be time to stop and take pictures periodically during the drive. Your drive today is about 10 hours.

Monday

Today you will continue your drive to the scenic Arctic Circle Crossing. You will spend most of your time today in the beautiful Richardson Mountains looking for wildlife and taking in the spectacular scenery of this wild and remote wilderness. Then you will cross the border into the Northwest Territories and down into the Mackenzie Delta where you will drive across the Peel and Mackenzie rivers on the ice bridges. Then it's on to Inuvik and the Arctic Chalet where you will spend the night in a cozy full-service cabin.

Tuesday

Today you will drive up the Ice highway to the Inuvialuit village of Tuktoyaktuk up on the Arctic Ocean where you will get a tour of the town that will include a visit to the amazing underground ice house. You will then drive back to Inuvik and spend the night again at the Arctic Chalet.

Wednesday

This day will be an exciting day of dog sledding and a snowmobile tour to our remote cabin in the Campbell Hills where you can enjoy soaking in our outdoor cedar hot tub followed by an Arctic Char dinner.

Thursday

This is a spare day incase there are weather related delays in your itinerary. Otherwise you can add on a day trip to the tundra to visit the Canadian Reindeer Herd by snowmobile.

Friday

In the morning you will get a tour of the Town of Inuvik before your flight back to Whitehorse.