Reflect on the Glow of the Northern Lights
Within reach, but beyond belief, the Aurora Borealis sets Canada’s northern night sky ablaze in a dance of light and colour. Viewing this natural phenomenon in person is just the experience of a lifetime your top performers will remember long after they return home. Fly-in to a secluded wilderness lodge, visit a VIP-teepee village or a prospector’s tent camp, or stay in a lux five-star resort for a range of Northern Lights viewing adventures.
Within reach, but beyond belief, the Aurora Borealis sets Canada’s northern night sky ablaze in a dance of light and colour. Viewing this natural phenomenon in person is just the experience of a lifetime your top performers will remember long after they return home. Fly-in to a secluded wilderness lodge, visit a VIP-teepee village or a prospector’s tent camp, or stay in a lux five-star resort for a range of Northern Lights viewing adventures.
Best Locations To Experience The Aurora
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
When it comes to popular bucket list items, seeing the Northern Lights is right up there with skydiving and bungee jumping. Everyone has seen images of bright, vibrant colors filling the dark night sky, but these images don’t even come close to experiencing the real thing. And if you want to motivate your team and experience the real thing, the Northwest Territories is the place to do it.
Capital city Yellowknife has been dubbed the Aurora Capital of North America, but the entire territory provides unrivaled opportunities to see the skies explode with reds, blues and greens. Home to sacred mountains, world famous rivers, the Northwest Territories are also home to Aurora Village, and their V.I.TeePee aurora viewing experience where your peak performers enjoy a locally sourced dinner while marvelling at the wonders of the Aurora, reveling in tales of local legends and lore and keep warm and cozy in their private teepee. Alternatively, get off the grid: fly on a bush plane — equipped with floats in fall and skis in winter — to land alongside Blachford Lake Lodge, an oasis of rustic luxury in the Northwest Territories’ wilderness near Yellowknife.
Whitehorse, The Yukon
Fortune-seekers and dreamers first clamoured to the Yukon in search of gold during the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Today, it’s the prospect of adventure, trophy fishing, and the quest to witness the Northern Lights that draws people here.
Travel just beyond Whitehorse to watch the Northern Lights at their brightest in winter’s utter darkness. Unique viewing sites include a comfortable prospector-style wall tent once used by gold seekers and trappers, or ultra modern glass sided chalets, of the Northern Lights Resort and Spa. Bundle up and head outside to marvel as the night sky billows with mysterious curtains of rainbow colors from green and yellow to pink and blue. Step inside where it’s toasty, heated by a wood-fired barrel stove, and warm your hands around a mug of hot chocolate. Hear stories of Northern life from local guides who make maple taffy right in front of your eyes. Then the next day, bundle up and take in an encore performance.
Churchill
Hugging the coast of Hudson’s Bay, Churchill bills itself as “one of the top three places on the planet” to see the Lights. Scientists and aurora watchers from around the globe flock to the town of 850, famed for polar bears and beluga watching in summer, to study the aurora in February and March during prime aurora season.
Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper
Total nighttime darkness and scant light pollution make Banff National Park ideal for viewing the Lights. Jasper National Park is North America’s largest dark sky preserve, making it a remote, but ideal location to see the dancing stars from September to mid May.
Did you know
Some locations can experience Aurora as early as September, when the near-24 hour summer sun gives way to longer nights, but the best time of year to experience this natural phenomenon is in the darkest nights of winter - between November and March.
Best Locations To Experience The Aurora
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
When it comes to popular bucket list items, seeing the Northern Lights is right up there with skydiving and bungee jumping. Everyone has seen images of bright, vibrant colors filling the dark night sky, but these images don’t even come close to experiencing the real thing. And if you want to motivate your team and experience the real thing, the Northwest Territories is the place to do it.
Capital city Yellowknife has been dubbed the Aurora Capital of North America, but the entire territory provides unrivaled opportunities to see the skies explode with reds, blues and greens. Home to sacred mountains, world famous rivers, the Northwest Territories are also home to Aurora Village, and their V.I.TeePee aurora viewing experience where your peak performers enjoy a locally sourced dinner while marvelling at the wonders of the Aurora, reveling in tales of local legends and lore and keep warm and cozy in their private teepee. Alternatively, get off the grid: fly on a bush plane — equipped with floats in fall and skis in winter — to land alongside Blachford Lake Lodge, an oasis of rustic luxury in the Northwest Territories’ wilderness near Yellowknife.
Whitehorse, The Yukon
Fortune-seekers and dreamers first clamoured to the Yukon in search of gold during the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Today, it’s the prospect of adventure, trophy fishing, and the quest to witness the Northern Lights that draws people here.
Travel just beyond Whitehorse to watch the Northern Lights at their brightest in winter’s utter darkness. Unique viewing sites include a comfortable prospector-style wall tent once used by gold seekers and trappers, or ultra modern glass sided chalets, of the Northern Lights Resort and Spa. Bundle up and head outside to marvel as the night sky billows with mysterious curtains of rainbow colors from green and yellow to pink and blue. Step inside where it’s toasty, heated by a wood-fired barrel stove, and warm your hands around a mug of hot chocolate. Hear stories of Northern life from local guides who make maple taffy right in front of your eyes. Then the next day, bundle up and take in an encore performance.
Churchill
Hugging the coast of Hudson’s Bay, Churchill bills itself as “one of the top three places on the planet” to see the Lights. Scientists and aurora watchers from around the globe flock to the town of 850, famed for polar bears and beluga watching in summer, to study the aurora in February and March during prime aurora season.
Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper
Total nighttime darkness and scant light pollution make Banff National Park ideal for viewing the Lights. Jasper National Park is North America’s largest dark sky preserve, making it a remote, but ideal location to see the dancing stars from September to mid May.
Did you know
Some locations can experience Aurora as early as September, when the near-24 hour summer sun gives way to longer nights, but the best time of year to experience this natural phenomenon is in the darkest nights of winter - between November and March.
