Introducing Hay River
A hard-working, hard-bitten town, Hay River has little to offer visitors. Arriving from Enterprise, the first thing you’ll see is the 16-story high-rise looming over the flatness. Then you’ll see the sprawl – kilometers of dilapidated motels, hulking tank farms, creaking railcars and scores of boats and trucks decomposing in weed-choked lots. This is the NWT’s second-largest community (population 3648) and the North’s freight distribution center; it’s the terminus of Canada’s northernmost railroad, the depot for Arctic-bound barges and the port of the Great Slave commercial fishery.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Road tripping in Yukon, NWT, Alberta, BC
by Chillyjilly 10 August 2011
Hi: I have to agree with the posts who say 'not enough time'. We drove from Peace River (500k north of Edmonton) to Ft. Providence,…
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Re: Road tripping in Yukon, NWT, Alberta, BC
by fanjoy 17 July 2011
Drive north from Edmonton, through Buffalo National Park, to Hay River on Great Slave Lake in the NWT. From there you circle south of…
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Re: How Many Airports Have You Been To?
by bearethere 19 June 2011
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