DAWSON CITY,
YUKON TERRITORIES

A festive frontier town, celebrating its roots daily!

You haven’t seen Dawson City unless you drive to the Dome. Enjoy the massive views over Dawson City, the gold fields, the Yukon's broad meanders and the ranks of mountains stretching away in all directions.

There are several sites of interest in Dawson City:

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 flowing north into the Klondike River. A century's worth of mining has left the streambed piled into an orderly chaos of gravel heaps, the result of massive dredges.

The Discovery Claim, about 16km (10 miles) up Bonanza Creek Road, is the spot, now marked by a National Historic Sites cairn, where George Carmack, Skookum Jim, and Tagish Charlie found the gold that unleashed the Klondike Stampede in 1896. They staked out the first four claims (the 4th partner, Bob Henderson, wasn't present). Within a week, Bonanza and El Dorado Creeks had been staked out from end to end, but none of the later claims matched the wealth of the first. Just over 12km (7 1/2 miles) up Bonanza Creek, Parks Canada has preserved Dredge No. 4, one of the largest gold dredges ever used in North America.

Dawson City Museum 
The beautiful 1901 neo-classical Old Territorial Administration Building--a newly designated National Historic Site of Canada-- harbors the Dawson City Museum, the largest historical collection in the Yukon Territory. The Dawson City Museum has three main galleries, using objects and photographs to tell the story of the people through the fantastic Gold Rush to the present day.

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 immortalized the North, particularly the animal stories like The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Son of Wolf. The cabin, a replica, contains more than 60 photos, documents, newspaper articles and other London memorabilia.

Diamond Tooth Gerties 
A place where visitors and locals alike gather to try their luck at the gambling tables and enjoy the nightly entertainment. 

Midnight Dome
It's named because from its summit at midnight on June 21 you can watch the sun dip to the horizon before rising again straight away – Dawson being only 300km south of the Arctic Circle . At the summer solstice there's a race to the top and lots of drink-sodden and fancy-dress festivities down in Dawson . Gold City Tours also run regular daytime and evening tours up here.