If seeing the northern lights is on your list, Saskatchewan might be one of the best places you’ve never considered. Set beneath the auroral oval, it offers a front-row seat to one of nature’s most elusive displays. With two dark sky destinations and low light and sound pollution, it offers some of the clearest skies in North America, making it ideal for seeing the aurora.

In a place defined by quiet and wide-open space, the experience feels even more surreal, turning still prairie nights into something you rarely get to witness.

Learn what’s actually happening in the sky with astronomy professor Dr. Samantha Lawler, and why this region is one of the best places to see the aurora.

One of the least noise-polluted places in North America, and home to some of the least light-polluted areas on the continent, Saskatchewan offers the perfect setting for astrotourism. Here’s where to go to see everything from the aurora to the Milky Way, and all the stars in between.