Nature Tours of Yukon is a Whitehorse based tour operator business as well as a destination management company and was founded in 1985. The Yukon Territory with its natural beauty is the perfect stage to offer outdoor activities in summer and winter and have people experience nature at close range.
Since then Nature Tours of Yukon has been offering a wide variety of guided and unguided outdoor trips like canoe tours on many northern rivers, hiking trips on the world famous Chilkoot Trail, van tours throughout the Yukon, the Northwest Territories & Alaska as well as Northern Lights and Adventure Tours in winter.
Nature Tours of Yukon is also offering destination management services and is the Yukon specialist in organizing tailor made tours and events for non-profit organizations, private industry and government agencies. To name just a few of our past and current clients: Sony-Ericsson Eastern Europe, the Science Museum in Buffalo - New York, Boy Scouts Ontario, Trinity School and Dulwich College in England.
We take only small groups of guests into the wilderness to ensure a quality experience. Small groups have a better chance of seeing wildlife and will leave a lighter mark on the land. We believe strongly in the principles of Leave No Trace - and strive to ensure that we leave places as we found them. We want to go back to our favourite places for years to come!
There are many good reasons for using the services of experienced guides - they know the area where they're going, and save you the time of advance planning. As long time residents of the Yukon they know the little secrets just off the beaten path - the places you might not find on your own. Basically they will take care of the things you either don't want to or don't know how to do.
Nature Tours of Yukon takes great pride in the highly skilled guides and drivers that are working for us. They will always go the extra mile to provide our guests with a safe, enjoyable and unforgettable experience. 
Joost van der Putten is the owner and general manager of Nature Tours of Yukon. He is Dutch and after a career in sales and project management, traveling the world for many years, he wanted a career move in an entirely different direction. He and his wife Conny fell in love with nature and wilderness of Yukon Territory 20 years ago. All these years they organised their own canoe and backpack trips and became very familiar with the Yukon. As of November 1, 2007, Joost took over Nature Tours of Yukon as a new challenge and he will continue operations with the same high standards and quality our guests have become accustomed to.