Jak Territorial Park — Attraction in Inuvik

J’ak campground is between the Inuvik airport and the town itself. about a 5 km drive to Inuvik. The campground is a typical oval, the outside spots are treed, some with raised wood platforms, and are mostly back-in sites, with the central sites being drive-thrus. A few sites have electricity, but most are dry. The bathrooms are clean with two shower stalls each. There is a playground for kids and a nice climb-up tower that provides a great view of the Mackenzie delta together with some information signs (see photos).

It’s a nice place but the big issue is that you can’t fill up with water or empty sewer tanks at J’ak. For that, you need to go to the Happy Valley Campground, on the west side of Inuvik. There is also no...

Found a nice tent spot towards the back thought we had scored another peaceful night. About 7pm local families from Inuvik pulled in and took over the front half of campground and had dinner while kids ran around. That lasted a few hours but at 10pm just after we went to bed 4 cars of local young adults came in and had a party in site next to us. No one enforces any of the rules. Wild night no sleep. Bathrooms were also no clean and no Tp.

There are other First Nation Campgrounds south of Jak but again no rules enforced but less people.

Now if you happen to need a place by Fort McPherson Natainlaii Territorial...

We camped here in September 2022 on our expedition to from Tuktoyaktuk, over Labor Day weekend.

Intended to stay just one night, on the way up to Tuk, but ended up staying a second night that weekend, because the bridge was 'out' crossing the Eagle River.

The campground is a good price, nice private sites around around the perimeter, particularly on the west side. Washrooms were very clean and the sites were well maintained.

Staff was helpful, particularly with information about the condition of the bridge down the Dempster and the updates on if/when it would...