Top Yellowknife Attractions
- Northern Frontier Visitor’s Centre
- Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
- Wildcat Café and Old Town
- Old Town - Summer and winter, has a charm all its own. Great eating, quaint ambiance, water views and historic buildings combine with bush planes on floats or skis to take you back to the early days of the city and of northern flying. The Wildcat Café rocks through summer with local and visiting musicians dropping in for dinner or for a jam session.
- Bush Pilot’s Monument - Top of the Rock in Old Town, this is our northern version of the CN tower. With 360 degree view, six stories up, it’s a favorite with locals for weddings, and one of the best places in the city to see the fall and winter aurora.
- Yellowknife Club - Everyone has to take a look at our Golf Club, and try to play its unique sand fairways. Local rules permit replacing a ball stolen by a raven.
- Aurora Viewing (September to April) - Look up, up, and around. In summer the sky over Yellowknife Bay is as wide and blue as a prairie sky. Cruise to a welcoming island in Yellowknife Bay for a northern style feast on a long summer afternoon or evening. Fall and winter offer a different perspective, a midnight blue dome filled with stars lends a ghostly light to gleaming snow. The aurora,or the dancing northern lights warm your spirit on the snowy landscape.
- Frame Lake Walking Trail - Forget the rush and bustle of our vibrant city and take to the trails. Skirting a picturesque little lake the Frame Lake walking and biking trail offers scenic views of the lake and the city at every turn.
- Legislative Assembly - Shaped like a traditional snowhouse, and almost hidden in a natural stand of spruce and jackpine, the NWT Legislative Assembly is the scenic focus of the capital region. The Assembly’s unique circular chambers recall the traditional northern approach to government, and encourage our unusual concensus style government.
- Diavik Diamond Display - Diavik Diamond Mines devotes the main lobby of its downtown office to a series of displays highlighting the search for diamonds and the development of a diamond mine, in the treeless tundra far to the north of the city.
What To Do
Yellowknife Weather
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