Recently, Forbes Traveler magazine discovered something many Canadians have long known: we know how to do that wild thing in high style. Über-high-end wilderness lodges, that is—which are really not all that tricky to pull off, given that something like 90% of Canada is pure, wild nature within a few hours’ flight or drive from our major cities.

Four such Canadian lodges have made it onto a Forbes Traveler’s top 10 list of North America’s “Best Wilderness Resorts.” And if anybody knows haute, it’s Forbes. Here are the contenders:

1. British Columbia’s west coast Nimmo Bay Heli Resort began as a fishing lodge and went upscale so much that the hit TV series “Boston Legal” had its series-ending finale there. Its specialty now: heli-adventures. You can still heli-fish, too.
    
2. At Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, also in British Columbia, “glampers” sack out in Fort McPherson tents gussied up Victorian style, having arrived by floatplane from Vancouver, BC, and then hauled off to the woods by Belgian-draft-horse-drawn wagon. Three massage tents await muscles achy from exploring nature.
    
3. In the Yukon, Great River Journey begins a 373-mi (600-km) high-end trek at Upper Labarge Lodge’s series of cabins, after which guests head upriver to Homestead Lodge, then further north to the Wilderness Outpost. Wildlife watching is a must here, and culture: guests traverse the lands of four Aboriginal nations during this trek.
    
4. Trout Point Lodge of Nova Scotia, with just eight suites that fairly ooze “haute rustic,” combines guided fishing with all manner of outdoor sport on the banks of the Tusket and Napier rivers, adjacent to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area and nearby the Atlantic Ocean. The white spruce log lodge is not just chic, but eco-sensitive, too. Wood-fired cedar outdoor hot tubbing, anyone?

There are a few more I could name that didn’t make the list, but easily could’ve.
I’m not telling. I want them all for myself... and select friends.