Yukon Vacation

[2531usmc]

My wife and I are going to the Yukon this summer. We’ll be gone around 10 days. We plan to visit Whitehorse, Dawson, Skagway, and drive the Top of the World Highway.

Does anybody have some good recommendations for historical or Yukon themed restaurants or can’t miss places to stop and visit.

We’re also taking a fishing rod or two and will try our luck along the road network. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Tod osier]

My wife and I are going to the Yukon this summer. We’ll be gone around 10 days. We plan to visit Whitehorse, Dawson, Skagway, and drive the Top of the World Highway.

Does anybody have some good recommendations for historical or Yukon themed restaurants or can’t miss places to stop and visit.

We’re also taking a fishing rod or two and will try our luck along the road network. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Check to see if the kings will be in at the fish ladder in Whitehorse.

The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse is a nicer museum than you would expect.

 

[Mojave]

I have done this twice, it is a good trip. Your last good hotel will be in Fort Saint John until you get to Whitehorse. If you are dragging a camper or have one on the back of your truck, you will enjoy Muncho lake in the BC.

Bring a lot of Canadian cash just pull it out of the ATM after you cross the border. Once you leave Edmonton you'll need it. Campgrounds are cash only.

Nice not having to worry about rando gas station attendants on the way up skimming your credit cards.

Watch out for Ice heaves, drive the speed limit. If the speed limit drops to 40 do 40. Switch your mind to KM when you cross the border. If you have a newer rig you can switch it on your dash digitally.

Have a good camera and binoculars at the ready. I saw 26 black bears and 2 grizz on the way up to Alaska and about 30 moose, of course mountain caribou, dall sheep, stone sheep, bison, mountain goats and elk.

We must have peed on the road 80 times. My youngest kid was 1 on that trip.

Last time I did it was 15 years ago. It's a hell of an adventure. I want to do the same thing here in Europe. Drive to Nord cap in Norway. No one else in my family is interested.

 

[Sitkaspruce]

We are doing the same trip. We live in Northern BC and finally decided to head north instead of south.

Plan is to do highway 4 from Watson Lake, then on to Dawson City, then a 3 day run up to Tuktoyaktuk so I can swim in the Arctic and tick a box on the bucket list (swim the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans)
Then the Top of The World highway to Tok, then back down to Haines Junction with a few days in Kluane
Then to Whitehorse with a trip to Atlin, then to Boya Lakes for a couple days, then back to Muncho and home.

If you haven't done so already, contact the Yukon Gov and they will send you a travel package, it has lots of great info https://www.travelyukon.com/en/plan...FpU518Zi7305SOLiZzn0KGjIemiIg9PhoCLd4QAvD_BwE

Get familiar with the Yukon

Everything you need to know to plan your perfect Yukon adventure.

www.travelyukon.com

Pick up The Milepost, amazing travel guide for the North. https://themilepost.com/ the book is available at Amazon.

We are planning on taking 3 weeks at the end of August (yes I will be giving up part of our elk season, but want to see the trees changing, less people, less bugs and better fishing) We had planned on doing Alaska as well, but that will be another trip in the future. I can't miss all of elk season!!

Cheers

SS

 

[medvedyt]

ribs and salmon restaurant should open back next week in whitehorse.

the casa loma restaurant should still serve some nice greek meals.

do not forget the museum of transport just close to beringia center very interesting part of our history.

check the opening hours for the top of world with customs as they less than they were.

drive in 3 days from watson lake to tuk in 3 days might be a strecth: this year second accident with already one dead. watch out for motorbikes or cyclists.

and enjoy the land of midnight sun and of course saving and helping with your blood donation: our national bird that we share with alaska: i named the mosquitoes.

for fishing they re many good places most of the time far from the road with few execption. you should try along the dempster any creeks with big culverts around and there is a beautiful place called 2 moose lake and in the summer in the evening they re coming to feed with some grass in that lake, be patient you will see them.

get some warnth clothing you re going up north and sometimes it can be cold will it be top of the world or the demspter highway.

enjoy our territory.

 

[oliveradamx]

Oh, I love the Yukon. 1 of the best places in the USA. Have a nice vacation!

 

[medvedyt]

the bad part is now the fire season with already some issues on the north lkondike hwy between pelly and stewart crossing as well just after carmacks on the frenchman lake road and again mayo on alert for evacuation. do not do a fire if you do not need even in campground with the wind and heat we have it does not take to be out of control ...

 

[medvedyt]

Oh, I love the Yukon. 1 of the best places in the USA. Have a nice vacation!

it is in Canada ... and Happy Canada day.

 

[northernmadman]

We are doing the same trip. We live in Northern BC and finally decided to head north instead of south.

Plan is to do highway 4 from Watson Lake, then on to Dawson City, then a 3 day run up to Tuktoyaktuk so I can swim in the Arctic and tick a box on the bucket list (swim the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans)
Then the Top of The World highway to Tok, then back down to Haines Junction with a few days in Kluane
Then to Whitehorse with a trip to Atlin, then to Boya Lakes for a couple days, then back to Muncho and home.

If you haven't done so already, contact the Yukon Gov and they will send you a travel package, it has lots of great info https://www.travelyukon.com/en/plan...FpU518Zi7305SOLiZzn0KGjIemiIg9PhoCLd4QAvD_BwE

Get familiar with the Yukon

Everything you need to know to plan your perfect Yukon adventure.

www.travelyukon.com

Pick up The Milepost, amazing travel guide for the North. https://themilepost.com/ the book is available at Amazon.

We are planning on taking 3 weeks at the end of August (yes I will be giving up part of our elk season, but want to see the trees changing, less people, less bugs and better fishing) We had planned on doing Alaska as well, but that will be another trip in the future. I can't miss all of elk season!!

Cheers

SS

If you’re driving the Dempster up to Inuvik and on to Tuk make sure to bring spare tires! Plural, that road can be hard on tires

 

[medvedyt]

If you’re driving the Dempster up to Inuvik and on to Tuk make sure to bring spare tires! Plural, that road can be hard on tires

having 10 ply tires and driving slow will help a lot ... taking spares is a good idea but never god a flat nor a destructed tire in over 14 years and driving at least once a year during the fall that road but doesnt mean it will never happen but i repeat take your time and 10 ply tires will save your day.

 

[kwackkillncrew]

Do the toe shot in dawson

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[Sitkaspruce]

If you’re driving the Dempster up to Inuvik and on to Tuk make sure to bring spare tires! Plural, that road can be hard on tires

I get what you are saying. Thanks

I have probably close to a million km's driving the back roads of BC for both work and personal and I have always run 10 ply load rating E tires on my half tons and 3/4 tons. About 1/3 of those KM is on Northern Vancouver Island, where everything is shot rock, about 1/3 in North central BC, where everything is gravel and the rest in NEBC, where it is either silty clay or shale. Knock on wood, but I have only had a couple flats and they were both on the guide truck that I had no say on what tires were on there.

Good 10 ply tires( I am currently running Falken Wildpeaks), the proper air pressure (really important), control your speed and avoid bottoming out on potholes. But every day is an adventure, so who knows what will be in store for us!

Looking forward to the trip....if the ferry gets running, fires don't close the hwys and/or the wife does get called to work the fires.....

Cheers

SS

 

[medvedyt]

i might add avoid the driving to skagway ... we went for a fishing trip in bc so not far from home and it was a non stop bus lines from and to skagway ... the cruise ships season is at full throttle there.