Ingraham Trail
Highway 4, known as the Ingraham Trail, extends from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Tibbitt Lake, approximately east of Yellowknife. It was built in the mid-1960s as the first leg of a 'road to resources' with the original intention of circulating Great Slave Lake.
The highway is designated as a northern/remote route of Canada's National Highway System.
The Ingraham Trail serves as both an industrial and recreational highway. In February and March each year, the trail is the initial section of the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road to three diamond mines locatedDetails
Since January 2014, the road bypasses Giant Mine through a realignment that originates off Highway 3, approximately from the Old Airport Road turnoff. At the road crosses the Yellowknife River followed by the Dettah turnoff at. After this the road passes several territorial parks:
before reaching Tibbitt Lake.
The trail is chipsealed to Reid Lake, leaving the last as gravel.
