Large Group Tours & Experiences
Our small group tours & experiences are designed for those looking for a more personal experience. Perfect for friends, families, or small gatherings, these tours offer added flexibility, meaningful conversation, and a deeper connection to the land and its stories.
Summer Walking Tour
Large Group Rivers, Trails & Trade Indigenous Guided Walking Tour at The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Walk the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya, where nations gathered long before Winnipeg existed. Led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours, this experience offers a deeper understanding of the land, its history, and the stories that continue to shape it.
Designed for larger groups, this guided experience is well-suited for corporate teams, conferences, educational groups, and organizations seeking a meaningful and engaging way to connect with place.
Walk with us. Learn the land. Carry the stories.
Winter Walking Tour
Large Group Winter Indigenous Guided Walking Tour at The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: November–March
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Step into the season that shaped survival, movement, and connection on these lands. Led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours, this private winter walking experience offers a grounded and immersive way to understand The Forks through an Indigenous lens.
Explore how winter shaped travel, preparation, and community, and gain a deeper understanding of the land through story, knowledge, and lived history.
Walk with us. Learn the land. Carry the stories.
Land & Water Tour
Large Group Indigenous Walking & Boat Experience at The Forks
Duration: 90 minutes (45-minute walking tour + 45-minute boat tour)
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Experience the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya from both land and water. This two-part experience begins with a guided Indigenous walking tour, sharing the stories, history, and significance of this place, followed by a boat tour along the same waterways that connected nations and carried trade.
Led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours in partnership with Winnipeg Waterways, this experience is designed for larger groups, including corporate teams, conferences, schools, and organizations seeking a meaningful and engaging way to connect with place.
From land to water, the story comes alive.
Large Boat Tour
Waters of Nestaweya Indigenous Boat Tour
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 12–28
Travel the waterways of Nestaweya, the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, where Indigenous Nations have gathered, travelled, and traded for over 6,000 years. Departing from The Forks, this guided boat experience offers a deeper understanding of how these rivers shaped movement, relationships, and the city we know today.
Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Waterways and led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours, this experience is designed for larger groups, including corporate teams, conferences, schools, and organizations seeking a meaningful experience on the water.
The water remembers. Come learn why.
Indigenous Culinary Experience
Large Group Taste Of Survival Indigenous Culinary Storytelling Experience
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Gather at the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya, and experience the food that carried nations. Led by Indigenous hosts from Turtle Tours, this immersive culinary experience brings to life the story of pemmican, how it fueled travel, supported trade, and sustained communities through generations.
Designed for larger groups, this experience brings people together around the fire to explore food as more than nourishment, but as knowledge, connection, and survival.
More than a tasting, it’s a connection that stays with you.
Add-On Tea Experience
River Woman Tea Indigenous Tea Teaching Add-On Experience
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Add-on to select experiences
Guests: 14-30
Enhance your tour with a short Indigenous tea teaching featuring River Woman Tea. In our communities, tea is chosen with purpose, plants are gathered intentionally and with care for the land so it continues to provide season after season.
Each guest is served a cup of River Woman Tea while learning how plant knowledge, relationship, and respect for the land have always been part of life here. This is not a refreshment break, but a teaching that brings the plant world into the story.
This is an add-on experience that can be included with your Turtle Tours
Canadian Museum For Human Rights Tour
Large Group Indigenous-Focused Guided Tour Canadian Museum For Human Rights (CMHR)
Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights | The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Explore key galleries at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights through an Indigenous lens. Led in partnership by a CMHR interpreter and a Turtle Tours Indigenous guide, this experience brings together lived perspective, historical context, and expert interpretation.
Designed for larger groups, this guided experience supports guests in navigating complex histories, including residential schools, treaty relationships, and the ongoing impacts of colonization, in a way that is grounded, respectful, and accessible.
More than a museum visit, it’s a deeper understanding that stays with you.
Residential School Museum Tour
Large Group National Indigenous Residential School Museum Experience Long Plain First Nation
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Long Plain | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private large group experience
Guests: 14–30
Visit the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada, located within the former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School on Long Plain First Nation. This guided experience is led by museum staff or interpreters, with a Turtle Tours guide present to welcome and support your group throughout the visit.
Designed for larger groups, this experience offers a respectful and grounded opportunity to learn about the residential school system, its lasting impacts on families and communities, and the strength, resilience, and healing of Survivors and Indigenous peoples today, engaging this history in a place where it happened.
A place of truth, resilience, and learning that stays with you.