Yukon

This article is about Yukon Territory in Canada. See Yukon (disambiguation) for other uses.

Transportation

In the past, the major transportation artery was the Yukon River system, both before the Gold Rush and after. As well, the coastal Tlingit people traded with the Athabascan people using passes through the coastal mountains. See also Chilkoot Pass, Dalton Trail.

Related Topics:
Yukon River - Tlingit - Chilkoot Pass - Dalton Trail

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From the Gold Rush until the 1950s, riverboats plied the Yukon River, most between Whitehorse at the head of navigation and Dawson City, but some going further into Alaska and up to the Bering Sea, and others along tributaries of the Yukon River such as the Stewart River.

Related Topics:
Riverboats - Yukon River - Whitehorse - Dawson City - Alaska - Bering Sea

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Most of the riverboats were owned by the British-Yukon Navigation co, an arm of the White Pass and Yukon Route, which also operated a narrow-gauge railway from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse. The railway ceased operation in the 1980s with the first closure of the Faro mine. It is now operated as a summer time tourist train.

Related Topics:
White Pass and Yukon Route - Skagway, Alaska - Faro

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Today, major land transportation routes include the Alaska Highway, which passes through Whitehorse; the Klondike Highway going from tidewater in Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City; the Haines Highway from Haines, Alaska to Haines Junction, Yukon, and the Dempster Highway from the Klondike Highway to Inuvik, Northwest Territories. All these highways, except for the Dempster, are paved. Other highways with less traffic include the Campbell Highway which goes from Carmacks on the Klondike Highway, through Faro and Ross River, and veers south to join the Alaska Highway in Watson L, and the Silver trail which forks off the Klondike Highway at the Stewart River bridge to connect the old silver mining communities of Mayo, Elsa and Keno City. All Yukon communities except one are accessible by mostly paved roads, but air travel is the only way to reach one remote community in the Far North (Old Crow).

Related Topics:
Alaska Highway - Klondike Highway - Skagway, Alaska - Haines Highway - Haines, Alaska - Haines Junction, Yukon - Dempster Highway - Inuvik, Northwest Territories - Old Crow

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The air transport infrastructure is well developed with Whitehorse International Airport serving as the hub with direct flights to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Fairbanks, Juneau and Frankfurt (summer months). Every community is served by an airport, and the air charter industry is quite extensive serving mainly the tourism and mining exploration industries.

Related Topics:
Whitehorse International Airport - Vancouver - Calgary - Edmonton - Fairbanks - Juneau - Frankfurt - Airport

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