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Try a traditional First Nations adventure tour
or cultural experience, outside Whitehorse
with traditional Southern Tutchone First
Nations culture operator, Long Ago Peoples
Place (www.longagopeoplesplace.ca).
Learn from the experts about stargazing and
viewing the aurora colours of the night sky
at Northern Nights: Kluane’s Dark Sky
Festival (www.parkscanada.gc.ca/kluane),
or through one of the northern lights
packages offered with Yukon Tours by
Klondike Travel (www.yukontours.ca).
SCENIC DRIVES
The Golden Circle Route’s 600-km (373-mi.)
begins in Whitehorse and circles to include
Skagway, Alaska and Kluane National Park,
showcasing spectacular alpine scenery.
The secluded Top of the World Highway,
open seasonally only, hugs the top of
mountains for outstanding scenery. At the
east end of the unpaved drive, hop on the
free car ferry and cross the Yukon River to
Dawson City. Bring your passport—the
crossing from Alaska to the Yukon is the
most northern international border crossing
in all of North America.
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GOVERNMENT OF YUKON/ANDREW STRAIN
The breathtaking and bumpy Dempster
Highway, a wilderness route, is best travelled
in summertime. The 740-km (460-mi.)
gravel roadway is Canada’s only all-weather
road across the Arctic Circle. The paved
Alaska Highway is one of the continent’s
great wilderness drives. In 1942, a workforce
of thousands of U.S. soldiers and Canadian
and U.S. civilians built the lengthy highway
in record time. It winds through eight
communities, Kluane National Park and
major attractions including the Sign Post
Forest, the Northern Lights Centre and the
Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre.
FAMILY FUN
All kids brighten up at the chance to spy
some wildlife. The Yukon Wildlife Preserve
features 12+ species of northern Canadian
mammals in their natural environment—
including woodland caribou, lynx, moose,
mountain goats, wood bison and foxes.
Open year-round, the preserve can be
explored on self-guided walking/biking/
skiing trails or by interpretive bus tour
(www.yukonwildlife.ca).