Dawson City

Dawson City is a National Heritage site sitting at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. It was once a summer fish camp of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in people, but with the discovery of gold in 1896, and the succeeding gold rush of 1897-98, the town’s population boomed. While Dawson City is no longer the thriving boomtown it once was it offers all the amenities of a modern tourist town while preserving a substantial number of the original boom town buildings.