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Junction of Yukon Highway #9 The Yukon Top of the World Highway |
Access to Top of the World Highway #9 is across the Yukon River via a free ferry which runs 24 hrs a day. For highway travel north via highway#9 - See Milebymile.com Road Map highway Travel Guide Highway #9 - Dawson City to Alaska / Yukon Border for driving directions and highway photos. |
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Yukon River and the Yukon River Ferry - Photo Yukon River Ferry  |
North access to the Alaska/Yukon Border. Chicken, Alaska. North access to Yukon River Government Campground just across the Yukon River ferry crossing. This is a excellent campground with a fair amount of pull-through campsites for big rigs. some campsites right along the Yukon River. Camping facilities: 98 campsites, 18 pull-through, free firewood, water, picnic tables, pit toilets, no electrical hookups. We camped here and walked to the ferry (free) and into Dawson City.
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Community of Dawson City, Yukon |
Gold, discovered in 1896 on nearby creeks, caused the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1898, Dawson was the largest Canadian city west of Winnipeg (40,000 people) with telephone service, running water and steam heat. Elaborate hotels, theatres and dance halls were erected. Major mining operations took over most of the Klondike gold beds in the years following the Gold Rush, but production declined after an all-time high in 1911. Higher gold prices caused a minor boom in the 1930's, but the last dredge was shut down in 1966. Today, tourism and gold mining are the major inductries, both taking place during the summer months. Approximately 60,000 people visit Dawson City each year. |
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Dawson City, Yukon building under restoration |
Photos of interest while on our walking tour. Numerous old wooden buildings throughout Dawson have been restored and a number of others are in various stages of rehabilitation, the majority of these projects being completed by Parks Canada, Klondike National Historic Sites. Walking tours of historic sites are available to visitors from June to September each year. Restored buildings include the Palace Grand Theatre, Post Office, Dawson Daily News, Bank of British North America, Territorial Government Administration Building, Court House, Yukon Hotel, Commissioner's Residence, Robert W. Service Cabin, Macaulay House, Black Residence and the CO's residence. Canada's only legalized gambling hall, bar and Can-Can show, 'Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall', operates during the summer tourist season.
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Photos of interest while on our walking tour.  |
Photo St. Andrew's Church and Manse. Erected in 1901, it boasted a pipe organ and carved oak pews that could accommodate 600. |
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Photos of interest while on our walking tour.  |
Photo the S.S. Keno. - The S.S. Keno is a National Historic Site. It survives as one of the many sternwheelers which plied the lakes and rivers of the Yukon. Prior to air or road service, the sternwheelers were the very lifeblood of the Yukon�s economic and social life. They brought everything from news and people to groceries and mining equipment from the outside to the territory. Tours available |
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Photos of interest while on our walking tour.  |
Photo- Author, Robert W Service original cabin. Robert Service became known for his work about the West, and the Yukon gold miners. Such works as 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' and 'The Trail of Ninety-Eight', and composed his third and final volume of Yukon verse, �Songs of a Rolling Stone�, which made him famous around the world. The cabin site is maintained by Parks Canada |
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Dawson City - (Albert Street) |
Photo Front Street - Main Street of Dawson City. |
| 0.5 0.8 |
Dawson City - (York Street) - Photo Dawson City visitor information center |
Access to Dawson City visitor information, East side of highway. North West Territory information center. West side of highway. - Attractions in Dawson City: Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall, Firefighters Museum, Gold panning, Jack London's Cabin, Midnight Dome Road, Robert Service Cabin, Berton Home, The Dawson City Museum, S.S. Keno, Walking tours of the Historic downtown, The Palace Grand Theatre. |
| 0.6 1.0 |
S.S. Keno National Historic Site |
West side of highway. The S.S. Keno is a National Historic Site. It survives as one of the many sternwheelers which traveled the lakes and rivers of the Yukon. Prior to air or road service, the sternwheelers were the very lifeblood of the Yukon�s economic and social life. For half a century the steamboats navigated between Whitehorse and Dawson City, and between St. Michael, Alaska and Dawson, some 1,700 miles (2,3736 km) of waterway, opening the Canadian west and north.
Tours available |
| 0.9 1.5 |
Dawson City Park Picnic Area |
Picnic tables. West side of highway. |
| 1.1 1.7 |
Access to R.C.M.Police Detachment. |
East side of highway |
| 1.3 2.1 |
Access to Dawson City Museum |
East side of highway. Dawson City Museum, has the largest historical collection in the Yukon Territory.The Territorial Court can also be found here, in a restored courtroom which has served Yukon justice for nearly 100 years.
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| 1.8 2.9 |
Dawson City - (Dome Road) |
Access to The Midnight Dome, north side of highway. On June 21st you will find visitors viewing the solstice. From the Dome summit at midnight on June 21, you can watch the sun dip to the horizon and rise again, right away. One also has a height of land overlook, of Dawson City and the goldfield dredging activity, around the Dawson Area. |
| 2.5 4.1 |
Point of Information |
Crossing the Yukon, Klondike River. |
| 2.6 4.2 |
Services fuel at highway, gas diesel |
Access to Dawson City R V Park campground. West side of highway |
| 2.7 4.3 |
Access to Bonanza Gold Motel |
West side of highway. |
| 2.8 4.5 |
Access to the Discovery Claim Historic Site Dredge #4 a National Historic Site |
Not long after gold was discovered in the central Yukon, dredges were introduced to the region. One of two dozen dredges that worked this area, Dredge No. 4 rests on Claim 17 Below Discovery on Bonanza Creek near the spot where it ceased operations in 1959. Dredge No. 4 is the largest wooden hull, bucket line dredge in North America |
| 2.9 4.6 |
Bonanza Creek Road |
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| 2.9 4.7 |
Guggieville R.V. Campground |
West side of highway. |
| 3.2 5.2 |
View from highway  |
Photo Remnants and tailings left, after seeking the gold. |
| 3.7 5.9 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Yamerak Creek. |
| 5.6 9.0 |
Access to Dredge Pond Subdivision - Eureka Drive |
East side of highway |
| 7.5 12.0 |
Roadside highway turnout - Dawson City southern limits |
Gravel turnout with information sign. East side of highway. |
| 8.3 13.4 |
View from highway |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 8.7 14.0 |
Community of Black Creek, Yukon Subdivision |
West side of highway. |
| 9.3 15.0 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Hunker Creek, Yukon. |
| 10.5 16.9 |
Hunker Creek Road |
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| 11.4 18.3 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 11.8 19.0 |
Access to Dawson City Yukon |
West side of highway. |
| 12.2 19.7 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Rock Creek. |
| 12.4 20.0 |
Access to Rock Creek Yukon Territorial Campground |
East side of highway. Camping facilities: 38 camping sites, picnic tables, no sewer dump, play ground. |
| 14.1 22.7 |
View from highway |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 14.9 24.0 |
Henderson's Corner |
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| 14.9 24.0 |
Roadside highway turnout |
Gravel turnout, no services. West side of highway. |
| 16.2 26.1 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Jottahamma Creek |
| 20.1 32.4 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Goring Creek, Yukon |
| 25.8 41.5 |
Junction of Highway #5 The Dempster Highway - Photo Dempster Highway sign  |
Services fuel at highway, gas , diesel. North access to communities of Eagle Plains, Yukon, White Pass, Yukon, Fort. McPherson, N.W.T; Tsligehtchic, N.W.T, Inuvic, N.W.T. |
| 25.8 41.5 |
Junction of Highway #5 The Dempster Highway - Photo Dempster Highway sign |
The Dempster Highway, stretching from Dawson City to Inuvik, N.W.T. 736 km 457miles, offers some of the most beautiful wilderness scenery in the world and a rare opportunity to drive north of the Arctic Circle. The highway passes through two mountain ranges and crosses the Arctic Circle and the continental divide. At Inuvic one can hire a aircraft to Tuktoyaktuk and the Bearing Sea.
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| 26.7 42.9 |
View from highway - Photo - Looking at the Klondike River, Yukon. |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 27.9 44.9 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 29.9 48.1 |
Roadside highway turnout |
Gravel turnout, no services. East side of highway |
| 32.3 52.0 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Flat Creek, Yukon. |
| 37.5 60.4 |
Roadside highway turnout - Rest Area - Photo taken from rest area |
The Tintina Trench Rest Area, pit toilets, information signs. Beneath the Tintina Trench is a fault line along which the bedrock has shifted a minimum of 450 km laterally some 65 million years ago. |
| 37.5 60.4 |
Roadside highway turnout - Tintina Rest Area  |
Photo taken from rest area. |
| 38.3 61.7 |
Roadside highway turnout |
Gravel turnout, no services. West side of highway. |
| 43.1 69.4 |
Roadside highway turnout  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 47.2 76.0 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Stoneboat Creek, Yukon. |
| 50.1 80.6 |
View from highway |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 50.3 81.0 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Jottahama Creek, Yukon. |
| 51.2 82.4 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 53.8 86.6 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. Photo following a pilot car through a road maintenance project. Editors comment; The Yukon government does a good job in maintaining their highways and are constantly upgrading. |
| 55.0 88.5 |
Roadside highway turnout |
Gravel turnout, no services. West side of highway. |
| 55.2 88.8 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 55.2 88.9 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Meadow Creek, Yukon. |
| 57.1 91.9 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. Back on pavement road. |
| 57.8 93.0 |
Roadside highway turnout  |
Long gravel turnout, no services. - Photo a RV Caravan pulling in for a coffee break. |
| 60.2 96.8 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Willow Creek, Yukon. |
| 62.4 100.4 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Beaver Dam Creek, Yukon. |
| 65.2 105.0 |
Clear Creek Road |
East of highway. |
| 67.8 109.1 |
View from highway |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 70.1 112.8 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 71.1 114.4 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 75.2 121.0 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Clear Creek, Yukon. |
| 76.9 123.8 |
View from highway |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 80.2 129.1 |
Access to Air Strip |
West side of highway. |
| 83.3 134.0 |
View from highway - Photo approaching the McQuesten River Bridge |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 83.4 134.2 |
Point of Information - Photo looking east at the McQuesten River |
Crossing the McQuesten River, Yukon. The McQuesten River originates in the mountains of the Yukon, N.W.T border and flows west towards the Yukon River |
| 93.8 151.0 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 96.0 154.5 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway. |
| 96.3 155.0 |
Access to Moose Creek yukon Government Campground |
Moose Creek,campground has 36 camping sites, fishing, playground, a 2.5 km interpreted nature trail takes you into the boreal forest along Moose Creek to the Stewart River. There is no RV dump station. |
| 96.6 155.4 |
Access to Moose Creek Lodge, Yukon |
West side of highway. |
| 96.6 155.5 |
Point of Information |
Crossing Moose Creek, Yukon |
| 101.5 163.3 |
Roadside highway turnout |
Gravel turnout no services. West side of highway |
| 103.8 167.0 |
View from highway  |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway.
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| 104.8 168.7 |
Point of Information |
Crossing X Dry, Creek. |
| 104.9 168.8 |
Point of Information |
C.B.C. Radio 100.9 FM. |
| 110.6 178.0 |
View from highway - Photo looking at the Stewart River, Yukon |
Traveling south on the Klondike Highway.
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| 110.6 178.0 |
Community of Stewart Crossing, Yukon |
Stewart Crossing was founded as a trading post in the 1880s prior to the Klondike Gold Rush to serve the placer miners working along the Stewart River.
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| 111.2 178.9 |
Junction of Yukon Highway #11 - The Silver Trail |
East access to communities of Mayo, Yukon, Elsa, Yukon, Keno City, Yukon. The highway is paved as far as Mayo's airport, and is gravel from there to Elsa and Keno City. Keno City is renowned for its arctic butterflies other attractions in Keno City; Keno Hill Alpine Interpretive Centre, Keno City Mining Museum. Attractions in Mayo; Binet House Interpretive Centre |
| 111.2 178.9 |
Junction of Yukon Highway #11 - The Silver Trail scenic highway |
The Silver Trail, a scenic highway that begins at Stewart Crossing on the Klondike Highway, travels through Mayo and leads to the mining camp at Elsa and the Hamlet of Keno. - Mayo, Yukon, was originally established as a river settlement. Silver, zinc and lead ores were loaded on sternwheelers at Mayo to be shipped to Whitehorse. East access to Five Mile Lake Yukon Government Campground (east of Mayo): Camping 20 camp sites, picnic tables, hiking trails, playground.
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| 111.9 180.0 |
Point of Information - Photo looking at the Stewart River, Yukon |
Crossing the Stewart River |
| 112.2 180.6 |
Services fuel at highway |
Gas diesel. East side of highway. |
| 112.5 181.0 |
Silver City Visitor Information Booth - Photo looking north at the visitor information booth |
Roadside gravel turnout, west side of highway. Pit toilets. This is a excellent visitor information center, the staff are knowledgeable of the Silver Trail and area. |
| 112.5 181.0 |
Start / Fnish of Road Map Highway Travel Guide |
For highway travel south - See Milebymile.com Road Map Highway Travel Guide Highway #2 Stewart Crossing, Yucon - Junction of The Silver Trail, Yukon Highway #11 to Whitehorse, Yukon, for driving directions and highway photos. |
| 112.5 181.0 |
Start / Fnish of Road Map Highway Travel Guide |
For highway travel south - See Milebymile.com Road Map Highway Travel Guide Highway #2 Stewart Crossing, Yukon - Junction of The Silver Trail, Yukon Highway #11 to Whitehorse, Yukon, for driving directions and highway photos. |