East Arm Great Slave Lake Adventure
Sun, Aug 17
|East Arm of Great Slave Lake
The fabled East Arm of Great Slave Lake has a spectacular reputation among locals, and for good reason.


Time & Location
Aug 17, 2025, 7:00 a.m. – Aug 25, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories X0E, Canada
About the event
This trip on the East Arm of Tinde’e (Great Slave Lake) features deep, clear water with abundant islands, narrow channels with tall red cliffs, and world-class fishing. With craggy cliffs and rocky islands, the islands of the East Arm support bald eagles, terns and gulls. Breathtaking cliffs are built from rock as old as 2.7-billion years (the oldest in the world), making for some of the most epic campsites you’ll ever experience. If fishing is your thing, you’ll definitely want to bring a fishing rod to enjoy the seemingly bottomless depths surrounding these islands. They are swarming with trophy-sized lake trout. And because the lake is clean and cold, fish keep near the surface in summer, making for plenty fishing opportunities from a kayak and from camp.
To add an element of magic to these expeditions, you can take advantage of autumn Aurora season for our late season departures (early-August…