Miles Canyon Review

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Miles Canyon

  • Address: Miles Canyon Rd., 2 mi south of Whitehorse, Whitehorse, YT
  • Mailing: 68 Miles Canyon Rd., Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
  • Phone: 867/668-4716
  • www.yukonrivercruises.com

Fodor's Review:

Miles Canyon, a 10-minute drive south of Whitehorse, is both scenic and historic. Although the dam below it makes the canyon seem relatively tame, it was this perilous stretch of the Yukon River that determined the location of Whitehorse as the starting point for river travel north. In 1897 Jack London won the admiration—and cash—of fellow stampeders headed north to the Klondike goldfields because of his steady hand as pilot of hand-hewn wooden boats here. You can hike on trails along the canyon or take a two-hour cruise aboard the MV Schwatka and experience the canyon from the waters of Lake Schwatka, which obliterated the Whitehorse Rapids when the dam creating the lake was built in 1959.

  • Open: Cruises depart daily early June-mid-Sept
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