Dawson City, YT Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Few episodes in Canadian history have captured the imagination like the Klondike gold rush , and few places have remained as evocative of their past as DAWSON CITY , the stampede's tumultuous capital. For a few months in 1898 this former patch of moose pasture became one of the wealthiest and most famous places on earth, as something like 100,000 people struggled across huge tracts of wilderness to seek their fortunes in the richest gold field of all time. Most people approach the town on the Klondike Hwy from Whitehorse, a wonderful road running through almost utter wilderness, and knowing the background to … more »