Summer Adventures
Northern Tier’s three summer canoe bases offer a wide variety of wilderness adventures, fully-outfitting crews for 6-10 day wilderness treks. A trained staff member, called an interpreter, accompanies each group, teaching new skills and customizing each trip to suit the needs and desires of every participant.
Furthermore, each base offers a different set of specialized programs and experiences. Do you want to fish? Kayak? Ride in a float plane? Stay in the United States or cross the border into Canada? Whichever way, we have something for you.
Learn more about each base:
Ely, Minnesota
Our flagship base in Ely, Minnesota, is home to the Okpik winter camping program and is our largest base for wilderness canoeing. In the summers, crews paddle deep into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Quetico Provincial Park.
Atikokan, Ontario
Called the “Canoe Capital of Canada,” this base serves as the launching point for exploring Quetico Provincial Park and the White Otter–Turtle River Provincial Park. It also features great fishing and kayaking programs.
Bissett, Manitoba
Unofficially regarded as the “Most Extreme High Adventure in Scouting,” the Northern Expeditions base is the most rugged and remote region paddled by Northern Tier. A float plane drops crews off at our wilderness canoe cache in the heart of the combined two million acre Atikaki Provincial Park and Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, an area visited by only a handful of canoeists every year.
