The Northwest Territories, home to Yellowknife where the Aurora is renowned to dance an average 200 nights per year due to Yellowknife’s location directly beneath the earth’s band of maximum Auroral activity – the “Auroral oval.” Yellowknife sits on the edge of the Great Slave Lake, which freezes over in winter and forms the famous ice roads as seen in Ice Road Truckers. Yellowknife is a thriving sub-arctic township only a 2 hour flight from Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary.