Rotary Centennial Waterfront Park

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Rotary Centennial Waterfront Park is a Park at Yellowknife NT, Canada

Rotary Centennial Waterfront Park runs along the shore of Yellowknife Bay, in the historic Old Town of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada. A wooden boardwalk threads the waterfront, linking viewpoints, benches and picnic spots. From here you look out over the bay, an arm of the vast Great Slave Lake, where floatplanes taxi past the colourful houseboats moored offshore. It is a favourite place for a stroll on a long summer evening, when the northern sun barely sets. The park also opens onto the water for paddlers and, once winter locks the bay in ice, for skaters and skiers. At around 62°N almost directly beneath the auroral oval and with dry inland skies clear on a remarkable number of nights Yellowknife is one of the top aurora destinations in the world. Right in town the streetlights compete a little, but step to the open lakeshore here and the northern lights still glow over the bay and the far shore on a crisp winter night.

Where to find Rotary Centennial Waterfront Park?

62°27'26"N, 114°21'17"W

Aurora hunting in Yellowknife?

The aurora season here runs from August to April, with the best chances of seeing the Northern Lights in September, October, February and March. The open spaces around Rotary Centennial Waterfront Park can provide unobstructed views of the Northern Lights.

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