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Are you a Yellowknife resident with your own snowmobile looking to explore Blachford for the weekend or stop in for lunch? The options don't stop at snowmobiling either, as you can choose other adventures! On this tour, you will have a chance to discover the beautiful Great Slave Lake on snow!
Blachford Lake Lodge was acquired in 1981 by the current owner, Canadian and long time Yellowknife-resident Mike Freeland, who has been committed throughout to conserving the area’s land, water, and natural resources. Comprising just one cabin initially, Mike has since added four more guest cabins and, in 1999, the custom-designed lodge, built from locally harvested spruce, and incorporating solar panels.
The lodge building is oriented so that the roof overhang and half the windows face south. This provides shade in the summer and heat through the windows in the winter. A tour of the lodge facilities is part of your Blachford stay.
The guest facilities include free wireless internet, hot tub, sauna, and aurora-watch wake-up service. Unusually for a remote lodge accessible from Yellowknife, the main building includes running hot water and showers, as well as comfortable hotel-style toilets.
These log cabins provide a special blend of comfort and adventure, taking you back to the days of the fur-trappers, European pioneers, and indigenous peoples who helped make northern Canada the vibrant, yet still timeless place that it is today.
Your visit to Blachford begins with thrilling step back into Canada’s history: a 20-minute bush-plane flight from Yellowknife, landing on Blachford Lake, in an aircraft equipped with skis in winter, or floats in the summer. Read about the exciting bush-plane flight from Yellowknife.
Covering almost 100 kilometers, this is the ultimate snowmobile tour to view the majesty of North America’s deepest lake, and follow in the footsteps of those who explored this rarely visited region. Follow a series of winding trails and beaver ponds to an old geologist’s cabin and the remains of the ‘Rex Cafe’, a mining camp dating back to the 1930s.
Then, it’s down onto the lake’s East Arm to see the incredible ice pressure ridges. Head over to Blanchet Island: its towering cliffs also drop 600 feet below the water’s surface.
Search the shorelines for prehistoric rocks then head back to the mainland and snuggle into the ‘Hole in the Wall’. This inlet is a haven for boaters in summer and snowmobilers in winter, providing shelter from the frequent high winds of the East Arm.
Warm by a roaring campfire with a hot lunch before making your way back to the lodge, along the north shore of the Great Slave Lake, passing the abandoned Destafanny Gold Mine and a mineral exploration camp.
Your package includes all meals and snacks; as well as coffee, tea, and juice. Vegetarian or other special dietary meals can be prepared if you inform Blachford Lake Lodge in advance.
Yellowknife Airport
4 km
Transfer included
Please book your flight to arrive at Yellowknife Airport (YZF). The air charter flight is included in the price. When booking your flights in/out of Yellowknife Airport (YZF) please ensure that you arrive into Yellowknife prior to 9 a.m. on your day of departure to the lodge. Charter flights from Yellowknife to the lodge depart at 10 a.m. Flights from the lodge to Yellowknife will have you back in the city around 11 a.m.
Boarding a float plane for a flight to Blachford is like taking a step back into history. Bush planes and bush pilots have been flying in this area for over 80 years. There are no roads to Blachford. Flying is still the fastest and most scenic way to get around in this part of the country. You board a Twin Otter or Caravan aircraft at the historic Old Town docks in Yellowknife. You take off on Yellowknife Bay, and head cross-country to Blachford Lake, located near the East Arm of Great Slave Lake.
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