See the night sky dance, shimmer and amaze with magnificent colour and movement!

On this Aurora Viewing Tour, you will have the opportunity to experience the thrill of viewing the Aurora Borealis. A rare natural beauty that is common to our northern region.

We will travel approximately 32km out of the city, along Ingraham Trail, to a secluded viewing destination. Here you can relax in northern comfort, while having the opportunity to view the Aurora. This evening tour also includes a northern snack of fish chowder or caribou stew and fresh bannock.

Yellowknife is located directly under the Aurora Oval, a narrow band encircling the polar reaches of the globe in which the mysterious green lights of the Aurora Borealis are at their most brilliant. Coupled with its clear cold nights, this favorable geographic location makes Yellowknife consistently one of the best places in the world for Aurora viewing. That is why Raven Tours has enjoyed a success rate of at least 95% over the past five years among guests who have booked three consecutive nights of viewing.

From our strategically located viewing facilities that are out of town and far from any man-made light, our guests can experience massive curtains of light flashing dramatically across the night sky, swirling and twisting into a magnificent corona. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are actually giant electrical storms formed by solar flares from the sun reacting with the earth's magnetic field. Although they are usually about 100-500 kilometers above the earth's upper atmosphere, up here in Canada's North, our guests often feel that they can reach out and touch them.