# Anyone been to Yellowknife, NWT? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450 "2012-08-24T03:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/1 "2012-08-24T03:32:48Z")
There’s a chance I’ll be in Yellowknife on business in a while. Anyone have any suggestions for things to see or do? anything to avoid? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/2 "2012-08-24T03:36:54Z")
Watch out for the yellow knives. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/3 "2012-08-24T05:14:47Z")
Here’s a local blog > **[Yellowknife Life](http://yellowknifelife.blogspot.com/)** > > A chronicle of my experience of moving to, and living, "North of Sixty" or, as I have come to call it, "the North Pole". After scanning it maybe not a great link. That biog is not all that pro Yellowknife. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/4 "2012-08-24T05:46:31Z")
Go to the territorial legislature building and take a look - it’s quite interesting and unique (and built by the company my husband works for 🙂 ). Bullock’s Bistro (a fish shack in Old Town) has great fresh local fish, but it is pricey. The walk-through tour of the Diavik Diamond Mines head office was worth a look. I would also recommend heading up to the top of the Pilot’s Monument in the centre of Old Town. We also dined at the restaurant in the Explorer Hotel - it was quite nice (we had the Cariboo TV Dinner). We went for a scrabble in the Fred Henne Territorial Park which was also not your average hike, since it is mostly on old lava flows. Yellowknife was a strange and interesting place - we found it to be basically a seaside town in the middle of the Arctic. Make sure you don’t miss Lois Lane and Ragged Ass Road in Old Town, either. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/5 "2012-08-24T05:57:24Z")
God, I wish. It’s my dream to live up in the territories someday. I’m from the North as it is, but I’m wanting to get much further north as I get older. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/6 "2012-08-25T05:20:34Z")
Thanks for the info, **Cat Whisperer**. I likely won’t have much free time, but I’ll see if I can work some of those suggestions into my schedule. The tour of the Lege looks particularly interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/7 "2012-08-25T06:02:45Z")
No problem **Northern Piper**. We enjoyed our visit up north, but we have no plans to move there or even go back to visit again - there are certainly large problems with the north. The expense was a big one - everything is as expensive as you’ve probably heard, and the quality of everything was mediocre at best. We also found the people somewhat standoffish just about everywhere we went - you’ve met us, I think we’re fairly reasonable people ourselves, so I don’t think it was just us. It could just be that they need to get to know people and warm up to them (no pun intended 🙂 ), and they don’t have a lot of use for tourists. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/8 "2012-08-25T15:02:37Z")
I always wanted to drive there, as it’s at the end of the road, much like Inuvik, or Prudhoe Bay, both of which I’ve driven to. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/9 "2012-08-27T05:53:43Z")
The city of Amarillo Cuchillo, Texas? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/10 "2012-08-27T06:04:41Z")
Don’t feed the bears. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/11 "2012-08-27T15:50:20Z")
Have you had a look around on Streetview? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/12 "2012-08-28T01:53:04Z")
They have a ritual every year to deal with all the pent up stress from lack of sunlight during the winter. Friends get together a week after the solstice to get drunk and commit random acts of violence. They call it the Night of the Yellow Knives. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/13 "2012-09-11T13:53:24Z")
Having breakfast in Calgary Airport en route to Yellowknife. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/14 "2012-09-11T16:52:54Z")
Hello! {Waves to **Northern Piper** over there - I can see the airport from here 🙂 } ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/15 "2012-09-11T23:35:19Z")
Having supper in Bullock’s Bistro on the shores of Great Slave Lake. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/16 "2012-09-12T08:43:27Z")
Good to know you got there safely, **Northern Piper**. Is the Wildcat Cafe still there? I seem to recall having a great caribou stew there one night. Have you yet enjoyed the Franklin Avenue “roller coaster”? Hope to return someday! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/17 "2012-09-12T17:26:18Z")
It really is a Great lake - holy cow, that is one big body of water! So, how was Bullock’s? Pricey but tasty? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/18 "2012-09-14T17:58:40Z")
Didn’t get to the Wildcat, but it’s still there. What’s the Franklin Ave roller coaster, **Spoons**? haven’t seen any reference to it? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/19 "2012-09-14T18:00:54Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It really is a Great lake - holy cow, that is one big body of water! > > So, how was Bullock’s? Pricey but tasty? Haven’t seen much of it - has been raining steadily , but yes, huge! Bollocks was great - best Arctic Char ever! But yes-$$$! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450/20 "2012-09-14T21:05:35Z")
Are there beaches on the lake? Do people waterski, windsurf, swim in summer? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-been-to-yellowknife-nwt/632450.md?page=2)