My Backyard Tours offers fun and informative tours. Guided by local experts, our tours show you the highlights in and around the City of Yellowknife as well as give you the opportunity to fly to Peterson’s Point Lake Lodge to spend time on the tundra. Our tours also offer you the chance to enjoy local foods, develop your photographic abilities and capture the wildlife, plants and lichens that shape the intricate beauty of this region. Guests will learn about the history and culture of the people that make the North unique.
Ann Timmins, one of our tour guides, is an artist who lives in Yellowknife. She’s also visited our lodge on the barrenlands at Point Lake, destination of two of our custom trips. Ann was completely taken with the tundra at the lodge: “There are times in my life when I have realized that I am living completely in the moment. Our journey to Caribou Bay at Peterson’s Point Lake Lodge was an entire week of being absorbed minute by minute, on the land. The everyday distractions were eliminated; I felt only the peace of walking on the warm carpet of tundra, searching the horizon for wildlife, and being captivated by the miniature colour world of each lichen and flora patch.”
