Dawson City

06/23/09 –0 6/24/09

Dawson City, our last stop in the Yukon, is like stepping back in time. The 1900 residents who live there closely protect the history of the area, “no McDonalds here.” Instead you eat at Sourdough Jack’s or have a beer at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Saloon while watching a show put on by Gertie and her dance hall girls. A walking tour with a costumed guide took us to visit several historic buildings while telling of the settlement of the town during the Klondike Gold Rush started by discovery of gold in Rabbit Creek in 1896. We learned that you can’t build structures on Perma frost.

We attended a reading of some of the poems of Robert Service and a telling of his life, as well as a look at where he wrote many of his poems of the Yukon. We also visited the former home of Pierre Berton and a Jack London cabin, other authors on the same street

We drove up to Dome Mountain for the beautiful view. A few days prior the whole community gathered for summer solstice to watch the sun set and come right back up. Marv enjoyed a Yukon Chillkoot beer on a really old bench.


This is the view from the top of Dome Mountain looking at the Yukon River and Dawson City. Perfect day.








We also toured the largest gold dredge to work the area and saw this “not-so-red” red fox.