Fort Good Hope Airport guide

Fort Good Hope Airport serves Fort Good Hope, a Dene community of about 500 people in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories. The community sits on a peninsula on the east bank of the Mackenzie River, just south of the Arctic Circle. The ICAO code is CYGH. The only all-season access to the community is by air, so the airport carries passengers, mail and freight throughout the year. A winter road from Wrigley opens for part of the cold season.

The airport lies about 1.9 km southwest of the community. It has a single gravel runway, 07/25, measuring 1,351 m (4,434 ft). The field elevation is 81 m (267 ft). The Government of the Northwest Territories operates the airport as one of its 27 public airports.

The terminal is a small building with a waiting area. There are no storage hangars. North-Wright Airways flies non-scheduled passenger services to Colville Lake, Inuvik and Norman Wells, which is about 145 km to the southeast. Buffalo Airways runs cargo service to Yellowknife. Passengers bound for Yellowknife connect through other points, so confirm routes and schedules with the carrier before travelling. Statistics Canada recorded 2,060 aircraft movements in 2010.