Interactive map of Canada's northern territories lets you explore many of the North's best whitewater canoe tripping rivers.

If you've always dreamed of paddling down one of northern Canada's wilderness rivers, but you've been baffled by the exotic names and unfamiliar territory, this map should help you get planning.

On it you'll find many of the great canoe tripping rivers of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern British Columbia, and Alaska. Let your cursor tarry over one of the names—Thelon, Mountain, Horton, Soper, Coppermine, Burnside, Wind, Snake, Nahanni, Stikine, Alsek, Firth, Yukon, Tatshenshini, Taku—and you'll be treated to a brief summary and a couple photos of what that river has to offer.

Click on the river name for more photos and a description of that waterway's geography, history, wildlife, whitewater, highlights and other beta.

If you'd rather go on an outfitted trip than plan your own, Canadian River Expeditions offers guided trips on all of these rivers, and many are also serviced by Black Feather.

However you plan to go, just go. Winter is the perfect time to stop daydreaming and start making concrete plans to see one of these beautiful rivers this summer.