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Anchorage, AK 1165km or 724mi
Beaver Creek, YT 457km or 284mi
Blanchard Camp 262km or 182mi
Boundary, AK 599km or 372mi
Burwash Landing, YT 284km or 177mi
Carcross, YT 74km or 46mi
Carmacks, YT 177km or 110mi
Dawson City, YT 538km or 333mi
Dawson Creek, B.C. 1478km or 918mi
Destruction Bay, YT 267km or 165mi
Drury Creek 293km or 182mi
Eagle River Camp 861km or 541mi
Yukon Beringia Centre Edmonton, AB 2070km or 1286mi
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VC Travel Guide Fairbanks, AK 980km or 609mi
Faro, YT 357km or 222mi
Yukon Beringia JCT. ALASKA HWY 1 & KLONDIKE HWY 2 Fort Nelson, B.C. 995km or 618mi
INTERPRETIVE CENTRE NORTH TO CARMACKS & DAWSON CITY Fort St. John, B.C. 1400km or 870mi
Imagine a world where the vast steppe stretches Fraser, B.C. 144km or 352mi
unbroken as far as the eye can see, where predators of as a trail used by miners and trappers at the turn of
staggering proportions compete with human hunters the century. Just north of Whitehorse, the Klondike Grey Mtn. Road Lookout 6km or 4mi
passes by the foot of Lake Laberge, immortalized in
for food and where animals and plants struggle to Grey Mtn. Road to Top 12km or 7mi
survive in the cold, dry treeless expanse. Explore the Robert Service’s soul-stirring poem “The Cremation
of Sam McGee” then up through the old towns of
treasures of that world within the Yukon Beringia Carmacks at the junction of the Robert Campbell Haines, AK 414km or 257mi
Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse and watch Beringia Haines Junction, YT 159km or 98mi
come alive. Highway #4 and Pelly Crossing. The historic Silver
Trail Hwy 11 leads eastward from the Klondike, to
Between two continents on the edge of the Arctic Inuvik, NWT 1226km or 762mi
lay the ancient land of ice, giant mammals and the Mayo and Keno City. Near Dawson City travelers Klondike, YT 564km or 351mi
can branch northward on the Dempster Highway #5,
First People of North America. Over the past 2 through Tombstone Territorial Park and all the way
million years, the climate of the northern hemisphere Mayo, YT 410km or 253mi
has been dominated by huge ice sheets. During to the Arctic Circle and Inuvik. At Dawson, one can Ogilvie 693km or 422mi
pick up Top of the World Highway #9 into Alaska,
each Ice Age, vast glaciers formed in the Northern
Hemisphere, locking up much of the world’s water meeting up with the Alaska Highway at Tok. Pelly Crossing, YT 285km or 177mi
as ice. Global sea levels dropped as much as 100
to 150 meters, revealing the floor of the Bering Carmacks Prince George, B.C. 890km or 1174mi
Sea and creating a land connection between Alaska Location: Junction of Klondike Highway 2 Quiet Lake,YT 227km or 141mi
and Siberia. This land bridge was part of a larger and Campbell Highway 4. 104 miles north of
unglaciated area called Beringia Whitehorse; 155 miles north of Carcross; 193 Ross River, YT via Canol Road 360km or 224mi
Glaciers never formed in that region because the miles north of Haines Junction; 224 miles south Ross River, YT via Carmacks 410km or 255mi
climate was too dry. Clothed in the hardy grasses and of Dawson City. Population: Approximately
herbs of the mammoth steppe, Beringia was home 500. Visitor information: Village of Carmacks, Seattle, WA 2793km or 1735mi
to the giants of the Ice Age: the mammoth, the giant P.O. Box 113, YT Y0B 1C0; Phone: (867) 863- Skookum Mine, B.C. 86.2km or 53 mi
short-faced bear, the steppe bison and the scimitar 6271; Email: carmacks@northwestel.net
cat. At the height of the last great Ice Age, the most The hub of the Yukon, Carmacks is situated at the Spokane,WA 3151km or 1957mi
successful hunters of all, human beings, entered confluence of the Nordenskiold and Yukon Rivers. Stewart Crossing, YT 357km or 220mi
Beringia from the Siberian steppes, conquering the This site has historical significance as a setting for
last frontier for the human species. Beringia vanished native fish camps hundreds of years ago. Athabascans Swift River, YT 295km or 185mi
with the end of the last Ice Age but parts of this lost also passed through here en route to the coast to trade Teslin, YT 183km or 114mi
land can still be found in northern and central Yukon, with the Coastal Chilkat tribe.
Alaska and Siberia. The small community was named after George Tuchitua, YT via Carmacks 649km or 403mi
The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre is located Washington Carmacks who discovered the first gold Tuchitua, YT via Watson Lake 567km or 352mi
in Whitehorse at km 1473 on the Alaska Highway. For that led to the Klondike Gold Rush. Carmacks served
information, call (867) 667-885.5 as a North West Mounted Police station in the 1890s. Twin Creeks, YT via Canol Rd. 476km or 296mi
The original community consisted of sod-covered Twin Creeks, YT via Carmacks 521km or 324mi
Klondike Highway 2 North buildings built around the police buildings and Valdez, AK 1046km or 650mi
roadhouse, both of which still remain.
WHITEHORSE TO DAWSON CITY Carmacks was a service stop for overland travelers
In about six hours, the Klondike Highway transports and steamers on the Yukon River. It also maintained Vancouver, B.C. 2656km or 1650mi
travelers from Whitehorse to Dawson Creek, back in a fox farm and a coalmine. Although coal was Watson Lake, YT 454km or 283mi
time through an exciting era and forward through discovered in 1893 by Jim Skookum, Tagish Charlie
the breathtaking scenery of dense boreal forest and and George Carmacks, a coalmine was not opened Yellowknife, NWT 1825km or 1134mi
high open alpine valleys. This historic route began until 1905. The Tantalus Coal Mine was closed in
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