Alaska/Yukon Trails

Top-of-the-World Highway Gold Rush Tour
(Fairbanks to Dawson City or Dawson City to Fairbanks  $162 per person, minimum 2 persons)
The Top-of-the-World Gold Rush tour offers travel over the Taylor, Alaska/Canadian & Top-of-the-World Highways.  Learn the history and see the mile marker at the end of the Alaska/Canadian (Al/Can) Highway at  Delta Junction's Visitor Center and visit a great bakery/grocery store while in Delta.  A lunch stop is provided at Tok, the gateway community to Alaska.  Visit the small mining community of Chicken, AK (population 39),the 40-Mile (gold) Mining District and historic gold dredge.  Cross the mighty Yukon River via ferry access to the boardwalk community of Dawson City. 

In Fairbanks, be sure to allow 2-days before or after the tour to enjoy the University of Alaska Museum of the North and Large Animal Research Center herds of reindeer and musk ox and Georgeson Batonical Gardens with giant, vibrant flowers grown under the midnights sun.  Visitors can canoe or kayak the Chena River through the heart of Fairbanks to pubs, hotels, restaurants and attractions situated along the river, or enjoy a sternwheeler (paddlewheel boat) dinner cruise or tour on the river.

While in Dawson City allow time to enjoy dinner and follies in turn-of-the-century saloon/casinos.  Walk the boardwalk streets to museums and galleries that feature Robert Service poetry reading & gold rush heritage.  Visit shops housed in false-front buildings surviving since gold-rush times and historic gold mines, pan for gold, keep what your find.  Dawson City is truly a unique community that will provide pleasant memories for years to come.

Departing Fairbanks on Sunday, Tuesday & Thursdays or from Dawson City on  Monday, Wednesday & Fridays between May15 & Sept 10, the Top-of-the-World Gold Rush Tour begins or ends in Fairbanks, Alaska's second largest city, or Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada.