See & Do

We’ve got an activity for that

Visitors are always stunned by the variety of activities available in Dawson City. For a small, northern town, Dawson has something to see and do for everybody. However long you’ve planned on coming, we assure you, it’s not long enough. In fact, we bet you can’t find a place in the Yukon that has as much to do in such a small area as our perfect, little town!

We have everything you expect to do in a northern town and more! Don’t believe us? Take a look at the listings below or better yet, stop by our visitor centre. As a guest in our town you’ll have a hard time packing it all in. We guarantee you’ll leave here wanting to visit again!

Did You Know?

Before Dawson’s first bank opened in 1898, everything was paid for in gold nuggets and gold dust, carried around in caribou skin pouches called “pokes”.

Did You Know?

In only one year– 1900– was more than a million ounces of gold taken out of the Klondike goldfields. At that time is was only worth $22 million.

Did You Know?

At the height of the gold rush, Dawson was so cut off and people so hungry for news, that even months old newspapers were auctioned off. Some kind people read their papers aloud in public.

Did You Know?

Prices in Dawson were so high during the gold rush, even a nail cost twenty-five cents.

Did You Know?

Tex Rickard, who went on to build Madison Square Gardens and start the New York Rangers, worked as a bartender in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Did You Know?

Dawson City is named after George Mercer Dawson, director of the Geological Survey of Canada and leader of the expedition that explored the region in 1887, with the purpose of surveying the Alaska boundary at the Yukon River.

Did You Know?

For fifty-five years between the creation of the Yukon in 1898 and 1953, Dawson City was the capital of the Yukon.

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