Yukon Travel Guide
Everything you need to explore the Yukon — every community, every park, every highway. Written by someone born and raised in Dawson City, with firsthand knowledge of roads less travelled and towns most visitors never see.
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- Driving the Dempster Highway: Dawson City to Inuvik and TuktoyaktukThe Dempster is Canada's only public highway to cross the Arctic Circle — 736 kilometres of gravel from near Dawson City to Inuvik, now extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. Here's what to know before you drive it.
- Dawson City Travel Guide: Everything You Need to KnowDawson City is unlike any other place in Canada — a Gold Rush boomtown preserved in amber at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers. This complete guide covers what to see, where to stay, where to eat, and how to make the most of your time here.
- Whitehorse Travel Guide: Your Complete Introduction to the Yukon CapitalWhitehorse is home to three-quarters of the Yukon's population and 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.
- Watson Lake Travel Guide: The Sign Post Forest and Gateway to the YukonWatson Lake is most visitors' first stop in the Yukon — and home to one of Canada's most unusual landmarks. Here's your complete guide to Watson Lake, what to see nearby, and what to know before you continue north.
- Haines Junction Travel Guide: Gateway to Kluane National ParkHaines Junction is a small community with an outsized position — it sits at the edge of 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.
- Carcross Travel Guide: Desert Dunes, Gold Rush History, and the White Pass RailwayCarcross is one of the most surprising communities in the Yukon — a place where sand dunes, a gold rush hotel, a restored railway, and deep Carcross/Tagish First Nation heritage coexist in a town of 300 people.
- Carmacks Travel Guide: Midpoint on the Klondike HighwayCarmacks sits at the halfway point of the Klondike Highway, on the banks of the Yukon River. Its Five Finger Rapids were once the most feared obstacle on the gold rush river route. Today the community is a practical stop with a beautiful campground and an important cultural heritage.
- Mayo Travel Guide: The Silver Trail and Keno CityMayo is the hub of the Yukon's Silver Trail — a region shaped by a century of silver, lead, and zinc mining. From the Binet House interpretive centre to the atmospheric ghost town of Keno City, this is one of the the Yukon's most rewarding and least-visited routes.
- Teslin Travel Guide: George Johnston, Tlingit Heritage, and the Long LakeTeslin stretches along one of the longest lakes in the Yukon, and its community holds one of the territory's finest small museums — dedicated to a man who photographed his Tlingit community through decades of change, and who once built his own road on the ice just to drive his car.