Tired of crowded national parks? Tyr Aulavik. Teetering on the edge of North America, Aulavik National Park is larger than Yellowstone, yet it gets fewer visitors per year than a Yellowstone restaurant gets at lunchtime.

The gateway for Aulavik is Inuvik, the Northwest Territories town at the end of the Dempster Highway. From there tour companies and air charter services can fly you to Aulavik, about 805 kilometres northeast on the northern end of Banks Island, the westernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago.

This is an exceedingly remote park. This means that visitors who are not veteran Arctic wilderness adventurers should go with a guided tour.

The eastern area of Aulavik is made up of badlands and canyons; the western portion has upland plateaus and rolling hills. The park lies at a higher latitude than the middle of Greenland, so the landscape is treeless, windswept, cold, and harsh.