Uranium City Airport guide

Uranium City Airport lies about 7 km east of Uranium City in the far northwest corner of Saskatchewan, on the north shore of Lake Athabasca. Eldorado Mining and Refining built it in the 1950s to serve the uranium mines around the town. The mines closed and the population fell to 91 people at the 2021 census, but the airport remains the community's main link to the rest of the province.

No road connects Uranium City to the rest of Canada. A winter road runs to Fond-du-Lac, so most travellers, freight and supplies arrive by air. The single runway, 06/24, is 1,199 m (3,935 ft) long with a bitumen surface, and the field sits at 312 m (1,025 ft) elevation.

Transport Canada owned the airport from the 1970s until the province took it over in 1997. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure now runs it. Rise Air provides the scheduled passenger service, with flights to Stony Rapids and onward connections within northern Saskatchewan.