From Wikitravel

The Yukon Territory is one of Canada's three territories. It is in the North.

Many of the visitors in the Yukon are travelling to Alaska on the Alaska Highway.

Contents 1 Regions 2 Cities 3 Other destinations 4 Understand 5 Talk 6 Get in 7 Get around 8 See 9 Do 10 Eat 11 Drink 12 Get out

Regions

Cities

• Whitehorse - The capital of the Yukon
• Dawson City - Historic Klondike gold rush town, now a National Historic Site.
• Watson Lake
• Haines Junction
• Carcross
• Old Crow
• Beaver Creek
• Eagle Plains
• Faro
• Mayo
• Carmacks
• Burwash Landing
• Destruction Bay
• Kluane Wilderness Village
• Tagish
• Minto
• Ross River
• Jake's Corner

Other destinations

• Kluane National Park

Understand

The Yukon is very sparsely populated. The whole territory has only about 30,000 people in it. This is less than many small towns in Southern Canada.

• Yukon Tourism - "the official website of Tourism Yukon"

Talk

There are a number of terms that are commonly used in the North:

• Cheechako - Someone who has spent less than a full year in the North.
• ice bridge - A road that crosses a river on ice.
• Outside - Anywhere below the 60th parallel
• parka - a very bulky jacket, necessary in the winter.
• Sourdough - Someone who has lived in the North for a number of years.
• tree line - the northern extent of trees north of the tree line there are no longer trees. The exact extent varies depending on elevation.
• winter road - a road that is only usable in the winter. Usually too wet and muddy in the summer to be passable.

Get in

The only significant airport in the Yukon is at Whitehorse. Air Canada offers daily direct flights from Vancouver. Air North offers flights from Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, as well as flights from Fairbanks and Juneau in Alaska. There are also seasonal and charter flights from Europe and Asia. Westjet (Canadian discount airline) has also offered seasonal flights from Edmonton in the past.

The most common way to arrive in the Yukon is by road. However, travellers must be aware that distances in Yukon are bigger than almost anywhere else in the world. It is not uncommon to go over 200km between very small towns.

The majority of the people travelling through Yukon are driving on their way to Alaska. There are 2 highways into the Yukon from Southern Canada. The Alaska Highway or BC Highway 97 comes from Dawson Creek in the Northeast of British Columbia. The Cassiar Highway (BC Highway 37) Connects with the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) near Terrace between Prince George and Prince Rupert in Central British Columbia. In any case the distance from Vancouver to the Yukon is about 2200km. That is approximately the same distance as Driving from Vancouver to San Diego.

Many travellers also come to the Yukon as part of a tour with an Alaska Cruise. Generally as part of the package it is possible to include a bus tour of parts of the Yukon. In some cases it may be possible to stay over in the Yukon for one or two weeks and return on the next cruise.

Others may arrive into Yukon through the Alaska Marine Highway system which operates a ferry from Bellingham, WA to Skagway in Alaska.

Get around

Air service between different parts of the Yukon is quite expensive. However, it is the only reasonable way to travel much of the Yukon. Air North is the major regional carrier in the Yukon. Air North flys to Dawson City and Old Crow in the Yukon and Inuvik in the NWT

See

Many of the visitors in the winter come to the North specifically to see the Northern Lights. In the summer, most of the Yukon has 24 hours of daylight.

Do

Going for dog sled rides is a popular activity in the winter.

Hunting and fishing are popular in the summer.

Eat

Food has to travel a long ways to get to the Yukon, so you will not find quite the variety of fruits and vegetables you would in the south, and the prices are significantly higher.

Historically hunting is a way of life in the North and Yukoners still tend to eat a lot more meat, especially wild game, than Southerners.

Whitehorse is a major supply centre and therefore despite the small size you will find all of your favourite chain restaurants as well as many very nice local restaurants that have diverse menus.

Drink

The legal drinking age in the Yukon is 19. The Yukon Liquor Corporation operates 6 liquor stores in the territory. These are located in Whitehorse, Watson Lake, Dawson, Haines Junction, Faro, and Mayo. Alcohol is also available from "off-sales" of bars. There is a 30% premium for purchasing from off-sales. The liquor stores in the rural communities also operate as government agents and provide services such as driver licences, fishing licences, motor vehicle registrations, property taxes, business licences and court fines.

Some communities in the North are officially "Dry" communities. In these communities alcohol will not be available and bringing in excess quantities of alcohol may be illegal.

Get out

From the Yukon you can get to Alaska at either the Beaver Creek border crossing west of Whitehorse or the Little Gold border crossing west of Dawson. You can also travel to Skagway Alaska South of Whitehorse and through British Columbia.

The community of Atlin in the Northwest corner of British Columbia is a very interesting little community that can only be accessed from the Yukon.

The most Northern Highway in the World goes North from near Dawson to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories.

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