Where Was Alone Season 10 Filmed? The Location, Explained

Alone season 10 was filmed on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, an island-dotted lake system stretching deep into the province's boreal shield country. It marked the show's first shoot in Saskatchewan, and the pick was deliberate: no road reaches the shoreline, so the production and the ten contestants were staged in by float plane, dropped separately along the lake's bays and islands in the summer of 2023.

Terrain, climate, and why this site is hard

Reindeer Lake sits in Saskatchewan's boreal shield, a mix of dense spruce forest, muskeg marsh, and bare rock cut by countless inlets. The lake itself is the resource that makes survival possible at all; the land around it is thinner in food than it looks. The real hazard is the subarctic climate. Temperatures fell past minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit as the season pushed into fall and winter, cold enough that water, metal, and skin all start behaving unpredictably. This far north, daylight also shrinks fast once the calendar turns to November, leaving contestants with only a few workable hours of light each day to fish, hunt, and process firewood. Black bears, wolves, and wolverines were all present on site, any of them willing to raid an unattended cache.

The tap-out log reads like a checklist of what that combination does to a body over time. Mikey Helton was medically evacuated at day 55 for hypothermia risk, and three of the last five exits, Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos (day 40), Ann Rosenquist (day 19), and Lee Ray DeWilde (day 18), were driven by outright starvation. The field averaged 37.0 days, a solid mid-pack number by Alone's standards, which fits a lake that keeps producing fish even after the surrounding land turns hostile.

How the season 10 field fared

Alan Tenta, a high school teacher with an outdoor-education background, won by outlasting the other nine contestants for 66 days. He built his strategy around redundancy and caching, smoking fish so his food supply did not depend on catching something fresh every day once the lake started to freeze over. He lost 78 pounds in the process. Runner-up James "Wyatt" Black lasted 64 days before deciding his journey was complete, just two days short of the win.

Placement	Contestant	Days	Reason
1	Alan Tenta	66	Declared winner (last remaining)
2	James "Wyatt" Black	64	Felt journey was complete
3	Mikey Helton	55	Medically evacuated, hypothermia risk
4	Melanie Sawyer	43	Felt journey was complete
5	Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos	40	Starvation
6	Cade Cole	23	Medically evacuated, loss of consciousness
7	Jodi Rose	22	Homesickness
8	Luke Joseph Olsen	20	Intestinal problems
9	Ann Rosenquist	19	Starvation and heart-related symptoms
10	Lee Ray DeWilde	18	Starvation, hunger, and emotional strain

Tenta's minus-40-rated sleeping bag was one of the clearest gear choices on the show that year, matched almost exactly to the climate he knew he was walking into. For the wider pattern of how contestants beat the cold on Alone's Arctic and sub-Arctic seasons, see our winter survival breakdown, and the locations hub has the full map of every site the show has used, from this one to the deserts of season 12.