Snow Removal

Monday, March 15, 2021

• All of Stinson Road;
• All of Fairchild Crescent; and
• Grace Lake Boulevard from Enterprise Drive to the end.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

• 48th Street from 49th Avenue to 52nd Avenue;
• 49th Street from Visitor Center to 51st Avenue; and
• All of Tees Court.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

• 50th Street from 49th Avenue to 52nd Avenue;
• 53rd Street from 49th Avenue to 52nd Avenue; and
• Denison Court, and all of Perkins Court.

 Thursday, March 18, 2021

• 49th Avenue from 53rd Street to 46th Street;
• 51st Street from 49th Avenue to 52nd Avenue;
• Majaesic Court.

 Friday, March 19, 2021

• 47th Street from 49th Avenue to 51st Avenue;
• 52nd Street from 49th Avenue to 52nd Avenue; and
• Jason Court and Piro Court.

Residents must ensure parked vehicles are removed from these streets by midnight on the date scheduled for snow removal or they will be removed (towed). Residents are advised that there will be traffic delays in snow removal areas and if possible, to use an alternate route to avoid delays. The City asks residents to ensure Curbside Carts are returned to your property prior to the scheduled snow removal on your street. The City thanks you for your patience and reminds residents to use caution in snow removal areas and not pass moving equipment.

Monday, March 8, 2021

• All of Harriets Lane;
• 46th Street from 52nd Avenue to Weledeh School; and
• 45th Street, 46th Street, 47th Street, 48th Street off School Draw Avenue.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• Hershman Road and all of Stout Road;
• Bryson Drive from Franklin Avenue to Brock Drive; and
• All of Wong Court, all of Lovell Court and all of Brown Court.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• 51A Avenue from Forrest Drive to 56th Street;
• 55th Street from 51st Street Sliding Hill to Con Road; and
• Finlayson Court and all of Cinnamon Court.

 Thursday, March 11, 2021

• All of Mitchell Drive;
• Raccine Road from Wiley Road to Ingraham Drive;
• Pilots Lane from Weaver Road to Boffa Drive and Boffa Drive from McAvoy Road to Franklin Avenue; and
• 41st Street from Franklin Avenue to Racquet Club.

 Friday, March 12, 2021

•  All of Jeske Crescent and all of Jeske Court.

Residents must ensure parked vehicles are removed from these streets by midnight on the date scheduled for snow removal or they will be removed (towed). Residents are advised that there will be traffic delays in snow removal areas and if possible, to use an alternate route to avoid delays. The City asks residents to ensure Curbside Carts are returned to your property prior to the scheduled snow removal on your street. The City thanks you for your patience and reminds residents to use caution in snow removal areas and not pass moving equipment.

Monday, March 1, 2021

• Gibben Drive from Kam Lake Road to Hall Crescent; and
• All of Hall Crescent.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

• All of Catalina Drive and lane between Norseman Drive and Anson Drive;
• Lane between Norseman Drive and Catalina Drive, and Johnson Crescent; and
• All of Loutitt Street and all of Range Lake Court.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

• All of Bellanca Avenue, Con Road from house 108 to house 136; and
• Bagon Drive, all of Balsillie Court and all of Dusseault Court.

 Thursday, March 4, 2021

• Ingraham Drive from Weaver Drive to McMeekin Causeway;
• All of Con Place and Rycon Place from Con Road to Robertson Drive; and
• All of Phinney Court.

 Friday, March 5, 2021

• All of Anson Drive;
• Butler Road from Borden Drive to end; and
• Ward Crescent from Butler Road to Borden Drive.

Residents must ensure parked vehicles are removed from these streets by midnight on the date scheduled for snow removal or they will be removed (towed). Residents are advised that there will be traffic delays in snow removal areas and if possible, to use an alternate route to avoid delays. The City asks residents to ensure Curbside Carts are returned to your property prior to the scheduled snow removal on your street. The City thanks you for your patience and reminds residents to use caution in snow removal areas and not pass moving equipment.

The City of Yellowknife wishes to advise residents that in the event the city experiences heavy snow falls, the City may have no choice but to push snow from roads to the curbs in order to keep roads open to traffic. If this method is used, this will create a snow ridge across residents' driveways and snow on sidewalks, residents will have to shovel out their driveway entrances and if possible, help in cleaning the sidewalks. City By-law No. 4063 states that if residents are shovelling out their driveways, they must not put snow back onto the street as this can be a traffic hazard.

The City removes snow from Yellowknife's roads and where possible the sidewalks. Snow removal is generally performed once in residential areas and twice in the downtown core.

Snow removal operations involve a grader removing snow from roads and sidewalks. This process may result in a dropoff at residents' driveways.  The height may vary, depending on snow accumulation, but could be in the 100-300mm range (4-12 inches). Residents should plan on ramping their driveway to street level after snow removal as this is not performed by the City.

If driving before snow removal is completed, motorists should keep to the right of snow piles placed in the center of streets.

Residents must ensure parked vehicles are removed by midnight of the scheduled day or they  will be removed (towed).

The City carries out snow removal, snow ploughing and winter street sand placement (sometimes referred to as sanding) to increase traction on the road and improve pedestrian and motorist safety. The City carries out snow removal on a priority system. High traffic areas and areas close to schools have a higher priority than low traffic residential roads.

The City asks for your continued patience as we work towards removing snow from City streets. We have received requests from some residents to carry out snow removal on their street, however we are not able to do so. To accelerate a request would mean postponing snow removal from a street that has a higher priority. A few reasons why a street may have a higher priority are: high vehicle or pedestrian traffic, location of a school, street may be narrow (a public safety concern), trucked services, public or school bus transit, etc. We do however investigate resident concerns, and if snow removal is not scheduled to take place soon, the City will plough the road with a grader in an attempt to improve the condition of the road. In the meantime, please drive safely.

See our Sidewalk Cleaning page for information on snow removal from sidewalks.