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Dawson City Burwash Landing
~ @ n Cnr Front & King Sts; n Whitehorse; (867) 667 STAY
www.dawsoncity.ca 3084
The town of Dawson City, in Northwest of Haines Junction, Bombay Peggy’s
Victorian Inn & Pub
the Yukon, came into promi­ this little village at the western period furnishings and
nence during the Klondike
A cozy hotel with
end of Kluane Lake lies just
EXPERIENCE Yukon the population boomed Park on the Alaska Highway. music and good cocktails.
gold rush of 1898, when
outside Kluane National
an adjoining pub. The
latter gets crowded on
A commu nity was established
and the city grew from a
weekends, with live
in 1905 after a gold strike, and
moose pasture into a bustling
Burwash Landing is now a
metropolis of some 30,000
service center. Visitors can
people, all seeking their
⌂ 896 Second Ave,
Dawson City
fortune in the new “Paris of
also enjoy panoramas of
the North.” The town continues Kluane Lake to the south. ∑ bombaypeggys.com
to mine gold, but tourism The village is noted for the \\\
is now one of Dawson City’s Kluane Museum of Natural
key sources of income. History, with many animal­ Klondike Kate’s
Dawson City Museum has related exhibits and numerous
fascinating displays on the displays on local natural Cabins
gold rush and artifacts from history. Focus is also given to These well-appointed
that period. Another popular the traditional lifestyle of the cabins are conveniently
located right in the
attraction is Diamond Tooth region’s tribe of Southern
Gerties, the gambling hall Tutchone people. heart of the city.
complete with a honky­tonk ⌂ Third and King St,
piano and music shows Kluane Museum of Dawson City
during the tourist season. Natural History ∑ klondikekates.ca
" ⌂ Burwash Landing \\\
Dawson City Museum § (867) 841 5561 #Mid-May–

" ⌂ 595 5th Ave # Mid- mid-Sep: 9am–6:30pm daily
May–late-Sep: 10am–6pm
daily; late Sep–mid-May: by
appointment ∑ dawson 7 at the junction of the Klondike
museum.ca Highway and the Silver Trail.
Stewart Crossing During the gold rush in the
Diamond Tooth Gerties @ n Whitehorse; (867) 667 late 19th century, the area was
" ⌂ Cnr 4th Ave & Queen St 3084 referred to as the “grubstake,”
§ (867) 993 5525 # May– because enough gold could
mid-Sep: daily; variable East of Dawson City, Stewart be panned here during the
in winter Crossing is a small community summer to buy the following
year’s stake. Stewart Crossing
also operates as the starting
point for canoe trails on the
Stewart River, which can be
organized in Whitehorse or
Dawson City.
About an hour’s drive north
is the Tintina Trench Rest Area.
Providing visible proof of the
geological theory of plate
tectonics, the trench itself
stretches across the Yukon,
with layers of millennia­old
rock gaping open. “Tintina”
means “chief” in the local
lang uage, and this is one of
the largest geological faults in
the Yukon system. This is an
ideal place to view the trench,
A family taking in the spectacular which runs up along the route
landscapes from Burwash Landing of the Klondike Highway.
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