Go North and gamble? You're guaranteed an adventure. The Yukon Territory is home to Canada's first casino, still operating today as a throwback to the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 1800s. The gold-hounds may not all have struck rich, but they would have been hard pressed not to stumble on adventure, at least. Today's visitors can be guaranteed the same- adventure, at least, for all who come looking.
The Dempster Highway opened in 1979, and with it opened 671 kilometers (417 miles) of Canada's arctic. The highway sees 24-hour sunlight during the summertime, while cold winter nights bring the Northern Lights out in all their colorful splendor.
Those seeking arctic mountains need looks no further than the Tombstone Mountains, a Territorial park along the Dempster Highway, the only Canadian road to cross the Arctic Circle at 66º33'N.
The Yukon is also home the world's smallest dessert at Carcross (formerly Caribou Crossing). 260 hectares of rolling dunes lie just South of Whitehorse, the Yukon's capital city. Less than 500 people call Carcross... (... more information below the photos)
Field Of Flowers This was once the site of a forest fire and is now a field full of fireweed flowers in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Forest Fire Pictures The billowing smoke from a nearby forest fire looms over the trees and landscape in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Lake Pictures A serene scene of a yellow canoe hauled out onto the shore of Kluane Lake backdropped by snowcapped mountains during sunset in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Snow Footprints Lonely footprints in fresh winter snow in the canadian arctic of the Yukon Territory in northern Canada. |
Eskimo Sign The snow covered inukshuk stands alone on a clear winter day in Alaska. The inukshuk is an ancient eskimo sign that is used as a marker in areas which are void of natural landmarks such as arctric regions. |
Klondike Gold Rush Dawson City is the site of the famous Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800's in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Forest Fire Yukon There are an average of 100 forest fires each year in the forests of the Yukon Territory in Canada. |
Northern Lights Yukon |
Tombstone Mountain |
Camp Fire Kluane Lake in the Yukon of Canada is a great place to camp out for the night and sit around the camp fire with friends during a summer vacation. |
Adventure Travel Yukon A place for adventure travel, the Yukon is ideal for year round adventure activities. |
Glacier Picture Aerial Photo of Kaskawulsh Glacier in Kluane National Park, Yukon |
Yukon Winter A photographer is taking a picture of the Tombstone Mountain Valley in the Yukon, Canada |
Lake Canoeing There's nothing quite like a gentle canoeing expedition on the waters of Kluane Lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada. |
Dempster Highway Winter |
Canadian Arctic Inukshuk An canadian arctic symbol, the Inukshuk |
Footprints In The Snow These lone footprints in the snow lead straight out into the wilderness |
Sign Post Watson |
Winter Sun |
Kluane Lake Sunset A flat calm Kluane Lake with beautiful sunset reflections in the clouds above. |
Glacier Yukon The large jagged shards of ice on the Lowell Glacier as it moves towards Lowell Lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada. |
Arctic Circle Yukon Canada |
Kaskawulsh Glacier Yukon The best way to get an aerial view of the Kaskawulsh Glacier in the Yukon Territory is by Helicopter. |
Northern Lights Canada |
Gold Claim Gravel pits are the remnants of the gold claim of the late 19th century in Dawson City in the Yukon Territory. |
Yukon Territory |
Kluane Yukon The Kluane Lake situated in the Kluane National Park of the Yukon Territory in Canada. |
Arctic Circle Sign A sign along the Dempster Highway in the Yukon of Canada at Latitude 66 33N otherwise known as the Arctic Circle. |
Canada Motorhome Vacations A comfortable motorhome makes for enjoyable vacations while travelling through Canada. |
Biker Dempster Highway A fully loaded biker travels the Dempster Highway in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Adventure Trip Yukon |
Glacier The Kaskawulsh Glacier is situated in the Kluane National Park in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Fireweed Yukon A plant that thrives after forest fires is the fireweed and is a common sight in the Yukon Territory, Canada. |
Blue Glacier A trick with light absorption creates the blue colour in this glacier in Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. |
Campground Yukon A couple enjoy an evening camping with their Motor Home in a campground in the Yukon Territory of Canada. |
Winter Sunset |
Lake Sunset A partly cloudy sky over a calm Kluane Lake during sunset makes for wonderful reflections and colours. |
Dawson History |
RCMP Mountie Yukon A RCMP Mountie dressed in full uniform on horseback at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Site, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. |
Arctic Circle Dempster |
Tombstone Mountains Yukon An aerial view of the Tombstone Mountains in the Yukon Territories in Canada. |
Tombstone Valley |
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