Top of the World Highway and Dawson City

Top of the World Highway August 27^th 

We left Chicken behind and started out on the “goat path” as the locals called it. This is a narrow dirt road, muddy at times, with lots of construction vehicles on it as well. It has very soft shoulders and deep drops off the high curves. We originally were not going to take this road, but talked to several other RVers along the way who had done the drive and told us that it was not as bad as it sounds.  So off we went.

It was as advertised but did not have as many pot holes as we thought it would. It was definitely a challenge but well worth it in the end because the rest of the Top of the World Highway gave us such fantastic views and a feeling that we were above it all. Absolutely wonderful!During our travels on the Top of the World Highway we crossed into the Yukon Territory.

Dawson City

The journey for the day ended in Dawson City after we took a ferry across the Yukon River.

Dawson City still had dirt (mud) streets with wooden sidewalks and the old gold rush type of buildings. There are still many gold mines being operated in the area.  The rock pile remains of the gold mining operations line the street on the way out of town for about five miles.  The population is a little over 1700 and increases during the summer months with all of us tourists passing through. This was a booming “Klondike gold rush” town with miners coming up the Yukon River and over the Whitehorse Pass from Skagway.