Louise Falls is the night, in the gorge the Hay River cut on Highway 1 past Enterprise. Alexandra Falls has the rest stop and Louise Falls has the powered campground, two drops in Twin Falls Gorge Territorial Park. As of September 2026, an NWT Parks advisory has closed the riverside trail between the two falls and all three viewing platforms for erosion, with no reopening date.
Louise Falls Campground and the Alexandra Falls rest stop stay open. The campground is just outside Enterprise, south of Hay River, and NWT Parks runs it on powered sites from mid-May into mid-September. You reserve through the territorial parks system. If you need more sleeping space than a campervan, those pads take a larger RV.
The same Highway 1 continues to Hay River and Great Slave Lake. On Vale Island, Hay River Territorial Park has powered sites and a sandy beach on the lake NWT Parks calls the deepest in North America. That campground follows the same mid-May into mid-September season, and you book by contacting the park.
The Highway 1 border south of Enterprise is the Alberta campervan trip. Yellowknife's nights, Fred Henne Territorial Park and the Ingraham Trail, start in Yellowknife.
Wood Buffalo National Park
South of Fort Smith, Pine Lake is the night, a sandy beach on a sinkhole lake inside Wood Buffalo National Park. Parks Canada calls the park the largest national park in Canada and the world's largest Dark Sky Preserve. Pine Lake Campground runs from the Victoria Day weekend through September on non-electrical sites, a mix of reservable and self-registration pads.
From the Salt Plains Viewpoint on Highway 5, the trail drops down a steep escarpment to bare salt mounds and a treeline spring where people take their shoes off and walk. As of September 2026, the Salt Plains Access Trail is open. The trails off Pine Lake Road stay closed after the 2023 fires.
You reach Nahanni National Park Reserve by chartered floatplane from Fort Simpson. The canyon and Virginia Falls are what you see from the air.
The Dempster Highway to Inuvik
Gravel Highway 8 runs from the Yukon border to Inuvik, with two river ferries on the way. The overnight is Jak Territorial Park just south of town. NWT Parks keeps Jak on powered sites from late May into early September, and grizzly bears are seen in the park.
The Dempster Highway uses two on-demand ferries roughly June to mid-October. Ice crossings replace them in winter, and both crossings close during spring breakup and fall freeze-up. Fuel is sold only at Fort McPherson, Inuvik, and Tuktoyaktuk.
The Dempster's other end crosses into Yukon. That side is the Yukon campervan trip.