UNCHARTED® · Outposts · Northwest Territories, Canada
Blachford Lodge
Wilderness Lodge
Your Entryway to Remoteness Under the Aurora Oval
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Why it's unique
At the top of the world you’ll find this fly-in lodge, off-grid and immersed in spectacular wilderness sights year-round.
Five lodge rooms plus five hand-crafted log cabins serve as basecamp for igloo building, snowshoeing, fat-tire biking, and ice fishing, while moose, foxes, and owls roam year-round. Nights glow with the Aurora, and days stretch into true Arctic quiet. Go beyond with Inuit guides who lead polar bear and narwhal expeditions near Auyuittuq.
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The stay
Blachford at a glance.
- Type
- Wilderness Lodge
- Ideal For
- Families
- Experience
- Fishing
- Geography
- Boreal Forest
- Collection
- Off the Grid
- When To Go
- Year-round
Where it is
Northwest Territories, Canada
Blachford Lodge
Northwest Territories, Canada
The Northwest Territories covers 1.3 million square kilometers of northern Canada, directly under the auroral oval, with remarkably consistent Northern Lights.
How To Get There
Fly to Yellowknife (daily connections via Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto). Bush ski planes (winter) or float plans (summer) land directly on Blachford Lake.
Flora & Fauna
This boreal forest is full of moose, foxes, wolves, owls, and eagles. It is the gateway to Canadian North expeditions: spot polar bears, narwhals, Arctic foxes Inuit guides.
Cultural Impact
The lodge honors the Dene people, who have inhabited the Northwest Territories for thousands of years. It also pioneers an eco-lodge model, featuring solar and wind power and an organic greenhouse.
In the magazine
Canada Stories
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