Hay River Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

Greyhound Canada has nearly daily service to Edmonton ($165 one way, 16 hours). Frontier Coachlines goes to Yellowknife ($98, eight hours), Fort Smith ($71, three hours) and Fort Simpson ($91, six hours). The depot is just north of the Vale Island bridge.

Car & motorcycle

By road, it’s a paved 38km to Enterprise. Along the way is the Paradise Garden farming settlement and the turnoff to Hwy 5, leading 267 partially paved kilometers to Fort Smith.

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Air

Flying to Yellowknife nearly daily (about $200 one way, 45 minutes) are Buffalo Airways, First Air and Canadian North. Canadian North also operates direct flights to Edmonton ($351 one way, 1½ hours, six times weekly).

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