Activities

Tour operators: 

Sea North Tours Ltd. https://www.seanorthtours.com/

Sup-North https://www.sup-north.com/ 

Discover Churchill Tours https://www.discoverchurchill.com/

Sub-Arctic Explorers https://www.subarcticexplorers.com/

Custom Churchill Tours http://www/customechurchilltours.com

Great White Bear Tours https://www.greatwhitebeartours.com/, 

Lazy Bear Expeditions https://www.lazybearlodge.com/ 

*All depends on Polar Bear annual migrations*

Polar Bear Summer Tour  (Late August - September)

     Tundra Buggy Tour Operator 

     Frontiers North Adventures - https://frontiersnorth.com/

     Polar Bear swimming in the Churchill River 

     Tour Operator: Sea North Tours http://www.seanorthtours.com

     Driving tour where you may see polar bears along the Hudson Bay 

     Nature 1st Tours http://www.nature1sttours.ca/

     Polar bear viewing experience by “boat” 

     Custom Churchill Tours http://www/customechurchilltours.com

     Lazy Bear Expeditions https://www.lazybearlodge.com/  

Ask anyone what they think of when they think of Churchill and there’s a good chance the answer will involve polar bears. These arctic inhabitants live side-by-side with the human population of Churchill (with certain safeguards of course!).   There are a number of ways to see the bears - you can hop on a tundra safari or even view them from the water with a Hudson Bay boat tour. Reservations are a must as spots fill up quickly. 

Operators include Frontiers North Adventures, Great White Bear Tours, Sub-Arctic Explorers, Lazy Bear Expeditions, Discover Churchill Tours, and Kischikamee Wildlife Adventures.  And don’t forget to stop by the town’s polar bear jail - home to some of Churchill’s most notorious polar predators. 

Just kidding...the ‘jail’ is actually a holding facility for bears who venture into the settlement and have to be contained while waiting to be relocated.  Custom-built “tundra vehicles” shepherd visitors (safely) into the path of migrating polar bears for 2 – 3 night tours.  You can sleep at Tundra Buggy Lodge out at Cape Churchill in Wapusk National Park. For this time of year, reservations are a must, as many services quickly become fully booked.

Tour Operators: 

Frontiers North Adventures https://frontiersnorth.com/

Great White Bear Tours  https://www.greatwhitebeartours.com/tours/general-tour-information 

Local Tour Operators 

Discover Churchill  http://www.discoverchurchill.com/ 

Nanuk Operations http://www.nanukoperations.com/

Lazy Bear Expeditions https://www.lazybearlodge.com/ 

 *All depends on if the evening has clear and dark night skies * 

Local Tour Operators 

Discover Churchill Tours http://www.discoverchurchill.com/ 

Arctic Aurora Tours http://www.arcticauroratours.com/

Sub-Arctic Explorers htttp://www.subarcticexplorers.ca

Beyond Boreal Expeditions https://www.beyodborealexpeditions.com/

Nanuk Operations https://www.nanukoperations.com/ 

Tundra Buggy Tour Companies

Frontiers North Adventures https://frontiersnorth.com/, 

Great White Bears Tours https://www.greatwhitebeartours.com/, 

Lazy Bear Expeditions https://www.lazybearlodge.com/  

Churchill, Manitoba is a birder's paradise! Over 250 species of birds nest or pass through Churchill and surrounding areas during their annual migrations. You may see American Avocet, American White Pelican, Bonaparte’s Gull, Eared Grebe, Ferruginous Hawk, Ross’s Gulls , White crowned sparrow, White-faced Ibis, Wilson’s Phalarope,…

Tour Operators

Wapusk Adventures http://wapuskadventures.com/ 

Boreal Birds Blog www.borealbirds.org/blog 

Hudson Bay Helicopters

http://hudsonbayheli.com/ 

Want to see more of Churchill aerial view and have a memorable experience during your Churchill visit? You can sign up for a 60 or 90 minutes duration helicopter tour with Hudson Bay Helicopters which is a full service helicopter charter company offering first class helicopter sightseeing services with knowledgeable pilots providing you with interesting and enlightening commentary and answering all your questions during the flight. Being the only helicopter operator in Canada with permits to fly in the Wapusk National Park, you can watch Polar Bear's activities in early August.  

In the summer, you can fly along the coast and see beluga whales as they congregate to give birth and feed their calves before departing in early August. 

In the winter, you can see the aerial tour of polar bears, moose, caribou, seals, arctic fox and many more of the diverse creatures that inhabit this pristine wilderness.