Since 1985
Our story
We began with a single Polar Rover and a simple conviction: that seeing a wild polar bear at eye level changes how a person thinks about the Arctic for the rest of their life.
Four decades later we still run the same kind of trip — small, unhurried and led by naturalists who know each stretch of coast, each willow thicket and each family of bears that returns to it. We fly our own charters from Winnipeg, we operate our own vehicles, and we set our own departure calendar around the freeze-up rather than around the tour season.
Our travelers have helped fund collar studies, den surveys and community education programs across the Western Hudson Bay population. Travel, done carefully, protects the very thing it came to see.
Small groups, always
A maximum of 16 travelers, and often far fewer. Everyone gets a window on the Polar Rover.
Guides who live here
Our Expedition Leaders average more than a decade of Arctic seasons on the Hudson Bay coast.
Bears first
We keep our distance, we never bait, and we leave when an animal shows the slightest stress.
Carbon-neutral travel
Every departure is offset, and a share of your fare funds Western Hudson Bay bear research.