Yukon Travel Guides — The Klondike Shop

Downloadable PDF guides covering every corner of the Yukon — from Whitehorse to Old Crow, the Dempster Highway to Kluane.

City & Town Guides

In-depth guides to every Yukon community — from Whitehorse to Old Crow.

Beaver Creek Travel Guide$14.99Canada's westernmost community, where the Alaska Highway meets the border. Beaver Creek is the last stop before Alaska and the first stop coming in — a small community with a geographic distinction and a spectacular location at the edge of the northwest Yukon wilderness.
Burwash Landing Travel Guide$19.99The Kluane Museum of Natural History and Kluane Lake on the Alaska Highway. Your complete companion to this small community at the edge of the icefields.
Carcross Travel Guide$19.99Desert dunes, the White Pass railway, and First Nations culture an hour south of Whitehorse. Your complete companion to one of the Yukon's most rewarding day trips and stopovers.
Carmacks Travel Guide$19.99Five Finger Rapids and a Klondike Highway crossroads on the Yukon River. Here's what to see, where to stop, and how to use Carmacks as a waypoint on the road north.
Dawson City Travel Guide$19.99The definitive guide to Dawson City — everything you need to plan the perfect visit to the Yukon's gold rush capital. Covers attractions, restaurants, accommodation, day trips, and seasonal tips.
Destruction Bay & Kluane Lake Travel Guide$14.99The great lake of the southwest Yukon, framed by the St. Elias Mountains. Kluane Lake is one of the largest lakes entirely within the Yukon — cold, deep, and bordered by the highest peaks in Canada. Destruction Bay sits on its eastern shore at one of the finest viewpoints on the Alaska Highway.
Faro Travel Guide$14.99Wildlife, wilderness, and the Yukon's most unexpected arts town. Faro is home to herds of Fannin sheep that wander the outskirts, an interpretive centre built on the legacy of the world's largest lead-zinc mine, and a small community that refused to become a ghost town.
Haines Junction Travel Guide$19.99Gateway to Kluane National Park, home to the largest non-polar icefields in the world. This guide covers the town, the park, the cultural centre, and how to make it your base for the southwest Yukon.
Keno City Travel Guide$14.99A silver mining ghost town in the hills above the Silver Trail. Keno City has a permanent population of around 20 people and enough history for a city ten thousand times its size — the mining museum, the alpine meadows, Signal Hill, and the eerie quiet of Elsa all make it worth the drive.
Mayo Travel Guide$19.99Silver mining country and the gateway to Keno City. Your complete companion to Mayo, the Silver Trail, and the historic mining communities of the central Yukon.
Old Crow Travel Guide$19.99The Yukon's only fly-in community, home of the Vuntut Gwitchin. A respectful, practical companion to one of the most remote and remarkable destinations in the North.
Pelly Crossing Travel Guide$14.99Selkirk First Nation territory at the heart of the Klondike Highway. Pelly Crossing sits at almost exactly the midpoint between Whitehorse and Dawson City — a fuel stop with more history beneath it than most towns ten times its size.
Ross River Travel Guide$14.99Kaska Dena territory on the Pelly River, deep in the Yukon interior. Ross River is a remote community at the midpoint of the Robert Campbell Highway — gateway to the Selwyn Mountains and one of the great wilderness paddling rivers in the north.
Teslin Travel Guide$19.99The George Johnston Museum and Tlingit heritage on the Alaska Highway. Here's what to see, the culture behind it, and what to know as you travel the southern Yukon.
Watson Lake Travel Guide$19.99The Sign Post Forest and gateway to the Yukon. Watson Lake is most travellers' first stop in the territory — here's what to see, the famous landmark behind it, and what to know before you continue north.
Whitehorse Travel Guide$19.99Your complete companion to the Yukon capital. Whitehorse is the starting point for nearly every journey into the territory — here's how to orient yourself, what to see, and how to use the city as your base for the north.

History & Culture

Gold rush histories, First Nations heritage, mining sagas, and more.

Dawson City Heritage & History Guide$19.99The gold rush capital in depth — buildings, stories, characters, and the gold beneath the creek. Goes deeper than any general travel guide into Dawson's built heritage, its literary figures, the NWMP's role in creating order from chaos, and the extraordinary Dawson City Film Find.
First Nations of the Yukon: A Complete Guide$19.99The fourteen First Nations, their territories, histories, and the 1993 Umbrella Final Agreement. Understanding who these nations are is essential context for any serious visit to the Yukon — and makes every conversation, cultural centre, and landscape more meaningful.
Klondike Gold Rush: A Complete History$19.99The discovery that changed the Yukon forever — and the people who made it happen. The full story of the Klondike Gold Rush from the 1896 discovery through the stampede, the boom years, and the aftermath, told with equal attention to the stampeders, the First Nations, and the landscape.
Tracing Your Gold Rush Ancestors$19.99How to find records of stampeders, miners, and settlers in Yukon archives and databases. The Klondike produced an unusual volume of documentation — mining claim records, NWMP files, census records, newspaper archives — and this guide walks you through every major archive and database for researching family connections to the rush.
Yukon Historic Sites: A Complete Visitor's Guide$24.99National and territorial historic sites, museums, and heritage places across the territory. The comprehensive guide to every Parks Canada national historic site in the Yukon, the major territorial museums, First Nation cultural centres, and heritage buildings — with admission, hours, and what to prioritize.
Yukon Mining History: From Gold Rush to Hard Rock$19.99Placer gold, silver, lead, zinc, and the industrial transformation of the northern economy. The complete history of Yukon mining from the 1896 placer rush through the dredge era, the Keno Hill silver district, the Anvil Mine at Faro, and the modern hard-rock gold operations of today.

Parks & Wilderness

National and territorial parks, northern lights viewing, and camping across the Yukon.

Ivvavik National Park Guide$19.99Wilderness at the edge of the world — the Firth River and the Arctic coast. Ivvavik has no roads, no trails, no facilities — just the Firth River (one of the great wilderness whitewater runs in North America), the Porcupine caribou calving grounds, and the Inuvialuit lands at the top of the continent.
Kluane National Park Guide$24.99World Heritage mountains, ancient glaciers, and the wildest wilderness in Canada. Kluane protects the largest non-polar icefields on Earth and the highest peaks in Canada. This guide covers everything from roadside viewpoints and day hikes to backcountry glacier travel and flightseeing.
Tombstone Territorial Park Guide$19.99The Patagonia of the North — jagged granite peaks, tundra, and the Dempster Highway. Tombstone is the Yukon's most visually dramatic landscape, beginning 70 km north of Dawson City. From the interpretive centre to the Grizzly Lake backcountry, this is the complete guide.
Vuntut National Park Guide$19.99The Old Crow Flats — wetlands, waterfowl, and Vuntut Gwitchin territory. One of the most ecologically important wetland ecosystems in North America, accessible by floatplane from Old Crow. This guide covers the Flats, the Porcupine River, and how to visit with the respect the community and the land deserve.
Yukon Northern Lights Guide$19.99When to go, where to go, and how to photograph the aurora borealis. The Yukon sits directly beneath the auroral oval — one of the best positions on Earth for northern lights viewing. This guide covers aurora season, KP index forecasting, the best dark-sky locations, and complete photography technique.
Yukon RV & Camping Guide$24.99Campgrounds, hookups, and everything you need for a northern road trip. The complete guide to camping in the Yukon — every territorial campground on the Alaska and Klondike highways, electrical hookup availability, dump station locations, and the logistics of keeping an RV running in the north.

Road Trips & Highways

Drive the Dempster, the Klondike, or plan a full Yukon road trip.

Dempster Highway Guide$24.99Canada's road to the Arctic — 736 km of gravel from Dawson City to Inuvik, across the Arctic Circle, over two mountain ranges, and onto the shores of the Beaufort Sea at Tuktoyaktuk. The complete preparation and travel guide for one of the great drives in North America.
Klondike Highway Guide$19.99From Skagway through the White Pass to Dawson City — the gold rush road. The complete guide to driving the Klondike Highway, from the dramatic mountain approach via White Pass to the final run through the Klondike plateau, with every community, viewpoint, and fuel stop covered.
Yukon Road Trip Planner$24.99Plan your Yukon road trip with confidence. This comprehensive planner covers the Alaska Highway, Klondike Highway, Dempster Highway, and the Top of the World Highway with detailed itineraries.

Yukon Travel Bundles

Save with multi-guide sets — every Yukon region and theme, packaged together at a significant discount.

Complete Yukon Travel Collection$149.00Every community guide and the Road Trip Planner — eleven complete PDFs covering Dawson City, Whitehorse, Watson Lake, Haines Junction, Carcross, Carmacks, Mayo, Teslin, Burwash Landing, Old Crow, and the full Yukon Road Trip Planner. The only Yukon travel library you will ever need.
Yukon History Bundle$69.99Six history guides covering the complete story of the Yukon: the Klondike Gold Rush, First Nations of the Yukon, Dawson City Heritage, Yukon Mining History, Historic Sites, and the Tracing Ancestors research guide. The definitive history library for anyone serious about understanding the territory.
Yukon Parks & Wilderness Bundle$59.99Five guides covering the national and territorial parks of the Yukon: Kluane National Park, Tombstone Territorial Park, the Dempster Highway, Ivvavik National Park, and Vuntut National Park. For the traveller who wants the wild Yukon — not just the highway version.
Klondike & Northern Yukon Bundle$49.99Five guides covering the northern Yukon: Dawson City, Old Crow, Carmacks, Mayo, and the Yukon Road Trip Planner. Everything you need for a road trip that goes all the way to the gold rush capital and beyond — with the fly-in-only Vuntut Gwitchin community as a potential extension.
Alaska Highway Travel Bundle$39.99Four guides covering every major stop along the Alaska Highway through the Yukon — from Watson Lake at the BC border, through Teslin and Whitehorse, to Haines Junction at the gateway to Kluane National Park. The essential companion for any highway traveller.
Southern Yukon Travel Bundle$34.99Four complete travel guides covering the southern Yukon — Whitehorse, Carcross, Teslin, and Haines Junction. Everything you need for a week-long loop through the territory's most accessible and rewarding communities, from the capital to the edge of Kluane.

More Guides

Additional Yukon travel guides.

Stewart Crossing Travel Guide$14.99The Silver Trail junction on the Klondike Highway. Stewart Crossing is one of those essential Yukon stops that most travellers blow through without stopping — and the last fuel before Dawson City. Here is what to know, what to stop for, and how to use it as a gateway to the Silver Trail.