Northern Communities

Most Yukon visitors see Whitehorse and Dawson City. The communities beyond those two — Old Crow, Haines Junction, Mayo, Teslin, Carmacks, and the others — are where the territory's actual character lives. These guides are for travellers who want to get past the obvious stops and understand the Yukon's smaller communities on their own terms.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.