Top 6+ Nighttime Outdoor Adventures in Canada
Wolastoq Adventures is an Indigenous-owned company that leads tours, including lit-up kayaking after dark.
Courtesy of Wolastoq
With so much of our day-to-day lives swamped by artificial light, and true darkness increasingly hard to experience, being outside at night can feel thrilling—almost taboo. Thanks to its wealth of wide-open spaces, Canada is especially rich with outdoor adventures, and the ones you take at night can offer a different, sometimes transcendent look at the world. Snowshoeing on fresh powder through a moonlit forest or staring up at the stars in a pristine prairie sky, I have found my senses elevated to high alert, connected with a more primal environment and my more instinctive self. Here are six “noctourism” trips, spread across the country, on which you, too, can experience a different kind of nightlife.
