Day 647- Alaska Trip -Dawson City

Sign Post Forest is a collection of over 90,000 signs at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, and is one of the most famous of the landmarks along the Alaska Highway. It was started by a homesick GI in 1942. He was assigned light duty while recovering from an injury and erected the signpost for his hometown: Danville, Ill. 2835 m

Whitehorse began as a vital transportation hub for prospectors during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. Named after the nearby white-crested river rapids, the city survived the end of the gold rush by transforming into a base for mining, military logistics, and eventually the territorial capital

Dawson, Yukon, is a legendary frontier town forever defined by the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush. Named after Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, it rapidly swelled from a traditional Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in fishing camp into the bustling "Paris of the North," serving as the Yukon's capital until 1953

Gold Rush premiered in 2010 as Gold Rush: Alaska. The hit reality series follows multi-generational family-run crews and independent operators, most notably in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as they risk millions to extract gold from deposits. Here we met some of the crew.

Reaching the Arctic is no easy feat, and just getting close means we tackled some of the most remote and challenging terrain.

Dredge #4, located 13 kilometers south of Dawson City on Bonanza Creek Road, is a massive, eight-story mining vessel and the largest wooden-hulled bucket-line dredge in North America. Built in 1912, this engineering marvel operated for nearly five decades, symbolizing the shift from manual panning to corporate gold extraction