Klondike
The Klondike is the heart of the Yukon. It's where the Klondike Gold Rush started and it's still the source of legends and the stuff of dreams.
Placer gold is actively mined in the Klondike.You can film an old-time operation or find one of the more machine-oriented establishments. Miners are still hauling out the nuggets, along with some prehistoric bones and mammoth tusks that were deposited in the river beds and preserved in permafrost.
Dawson City
The historical heart of the Yukon with a true mixture of character, climate and creature comfort.
The historical heart of the Yukon with a true mixture of character, climate and creature comfort.
Dawson City
There's no substitute for Dawson City, the rowdy, rambunctious centre of the Klondike Gold Rush. Dawson City is the incarnation of what set towns try to re-create. Every house, yard and cranny speaks volumes of history. The entire town is a National Historic Site, and many of the gold rush buildings have been authentically refurbished right down to the color of paint and the hardware on the doors. Others have slipped into dereliction, and stand bucked and heaved into exaggerated postures by the permafrost underneath.Dawson City is home to Canada's first legal gambling hall, Diamond Tooth Gertie's, which is decorated in authentic period style. It's a party just meeting the people of Dawson City. A casting call will give you hippies, dancehall girls, card dealers, old timers, trappers, business men, miners and gamblers. Not to mention regular folks.
Keno
A picturesque clutter of log buildings, high on a mountainside.
A picturesque clutter of log buildings, high on a mountainside.
The Silver Trail
Just south of Dawson City and the Klondike is the Silver Trail. This was once Canada's richest silver producing region. Now Keno is a virtual ghost town, however some folks find it too pretty to leave. A picturesque cluster of log buildings, Keno is perched high on a mountain side, giving panoramic views of the surrounding country.Mayo is the largest community on the Trail (which is really a well maintained road). It serves as a supply post for the many folks who placer mine, live in the bush, or do wilderness outfitting in the area. The Bonnet-Plume and the Snake Rivers, north of Mayo, are both recognized as some of the world's finest whitewater canoeing rivers and have been nominated as Canadian Heritage Rivers.
