Canada from East to West

There are road trips - and then there’s this one. If you take around 45 days and drive from Halifax on the Atlantic coast all the way to the Arctic Ocean in Tuktoyaktuk - and then return via the Pacific coast - you haven’t simply traveled through Canada. You’ve experienced it. This country is unimaginably vast, and this route makes you feel every bit of it: the salty sea air of Nova Scotia, the thunder of Niagara Falls, the endless openness of the Canadian prairies, the first appearance of the Rockies on the horizon like scenery from another world, the surreal beauty of the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper - and then the Dempster Highway, the narrow gravel ribbon carrying you through the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the edge of the world.

Tuktoyaktuk. “Tuk,” as the locals call it. An Inuit community on the Beaufort Sea, accessible year-round by road only since 2017. Here you hear the ice crack, see beluga whales in the shallow water, and stand with both feet in the Arctic Ocean. There is no more dramatic endpoint for a camper journey in the northern world.

The return trip is no comedown - it’s a chapter of its own: back through the Yukon across the Alcan border into Alaska, down through Tagish and Stewart, along British Columbia’s spectacular coastline and the islands of Haida Gwaii, across Vancouver Island with Pacific Rim National Park, Telegraph Cove, and San Josef Bay, all the way to Neah Bay and Sekiu on the northwestern coast of the United States. 72 stops. One single camper. Your life on wheels.

Bucket List

• Stand at the lighthouse in Peggy’s Cove at sunrise, before the tour buses arrive

• Eat freshly cooked lobster straight from the harbor in Lunenburg — ideally with butter and an ocean view

• Experience Niagara Falls at dawn before the daytime crowds appear

• Camp along the lonely north shore of Lake Superior, where the lake looks like an ocean

• Photograph bison from your camper in Riding Mountain National Park

• See Lake Louise at first light before the rush begins — you never forget the turquoise water in the morning glow

• Drive the Icefields Parkway without rushing — every curve reveals a new masterpiece

• Drive the entire Dempster Highway — from Dawson City to Tuktoyaktuk, gravel and all

• Touch the Arctic Ocean. Just because you can.

• Watch whales from a kayak in Telegraph Cove, BC

• Experience Long Beach on Vancouver Island during a storm

• Jump into the water at Neah Bay, Washington — the northwesternmost point of the continental United States