Bush Pilots Monument
Bay views.
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Old Town is the original heart of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, on a rocky peninsula on the shore of Great Slave Lake, about 1.5 km in a straight line north of the modern downtown. Yellowknife lies about 400 km south of the Arctic Circle. The town was founded in the 1930s as a gold-mining camp, and Old Town grew on the rocks of the peninsula and Latham Island. Today its narrow, winding lanes hold wooden houses, small cafés, galleries and float-plane docks, while colourful houseboats are moored in Yellowknife Bay, where their owners live on the water all year and drive across the ice in winter. At the top of the peninsula, the Bush Pilots Monument stands on a rock outcrop reached by steps, with wide views over the bay, the houseboats and the lake. Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, more than 600 m deep. Yellowknife is one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights, which appear on many clear nights from late August to April, and tours take visitors to lakeside camps away from the city lights. Winters are long and very cold, while summer brings almost endless daylight.
Bay views.
On Yellowknife Bay.
August to April.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
From late August to April on clear nights.
Yes, Old Town is free to explore.