“When it rains, this road turns into a muddy mess, and even the best trucks have trouble.” Or so said our man of north Harris, who had a hand in building this road, the Dempster Highway, in the sixties and seventies. We were bouncing north, after having left the relative comfort of the paved Klondike Highway, running from Whitehorse to Dawson City. The Dempster is the most northerly road in the world, and runs all the way to the Arctic Ocean, across some... Read More
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Dawson City Museum
In the grand old Territorial Administration building, this excellent museum should be your first stop on a tour of Dawson City. Well-curated displays...
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Jack London's Cabin and Interpretive Centre
American adventure writer Jack London lived in the Yukon less than a year -- he left in June 1898 after a bout with scurvy -- but his writings...
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Bonanza Creek
The original Yukon gold strike and some of the richest pay dirt in the world were found on Bonanza Creek, an otherwise-insignificant tributary...
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