Dawson City, Yukon

Dawson City, Yukon

Note: Dawson Creek in the southern part of Canada is not the same as Dawson City where you can take the ferry into Alaska.

We stopped for the night shortly before we would have gotten to Dawson Creek at a lovely pullout on the river. The mosquitos were the downside. They were approximately the size of hummingbirds. While that was a tad overstated, those were big mosquitos. A breeze would chase them away, but while we were leveling the trailer they were swarming us.

As far as sightseeing in Dawson City goes. We started at the Jack London museum. In case you've forgotten, London wrote "White Fang," "The Call of the Wild," and "To Build a Fire." Much of his work is set in the Yukon and Alaska. The museum was small, but it made MiLena's heart happy to see it. Jack London made it to Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush.

We also stopped at the visitor center. They gave us a list of things to do in Dawson City along with the cost of those things. (That helps if you're trying to stay on a budget.) Dawson City is a small town; however at the height of the Yukon Gold Rush, the population swelled to betweenn 30,000 and 35,000 people.

Oddly enough, Dawson City was the second city on the West Coast to have electricity. San Francisco was the first. The reason Dawson City was so high on the list of places to receive electricity is because of the dredges during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Dredge #4, the one you can tour in Dawson City had signs that explained that the dredge is essentially like a huge gold pan. It picks up large parts of land, shakes the dirt our and leaves the gold. The area all around Dredge #4 is currently being dredged. They are active mines.

At the visitor center they loaned us pans and told us where we could pan for gold for free. Because of some slick rocks, Sharon did MiLena's panning. We possibly got some tiny flecks of gold.

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