Hiking

Canoeists paddling on the Snake River at the confluence of Milk Creek. (Peter Mather/Yukon News)

By foot and paddle, 21 days on Yukon’s Gyuu Dazhoo Njik – The Snake River

By Peter Mather The rivers of the Peel watershed are some of…

  • Sep 20, 2023

 

The Chilkoot Trail. The target goal date to open the Alaskan side of the trail is Aug. 1, 2023, if all necessary repairs can be made. Photo courtesy Yukon Government

Alaskan side of the Chilkoot Trail may reopen Aug. 1, following Yukon opening June 1

Trail was closed following extensive flooding in the fall of 2022

 

FILE - In this March 21, 2006, file photo, is the abandoned bus where Christopher McCandless starved to death in 1992 near Healy, Alaska. The bus that people sometimes embarked on deadly pilgrimages to Alaska’s backcountry to visit can now safely be viewed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks while it undergoes preservation work. The bus was moved to the university's engineering facility in early Oct. 2021, while it's being prepared for outdoor display at the Museum of the North, Fairbanks television station KTVF reported. (AP Photo/Jillian Rogers, File )

‘Into the Wild’ bus on display in Fairbanks during preservation work

A bus that people sometimes embarked on deadly pilgrimages to Alaska’s backcountry…

  • Oct 21, 2021

 

WildWise Yukon staff lead a bear awareness hike with YCS. It is among the popular specialty hikes offered by the YCS at Kwanlin/Miles Canyon during the summer. (YCS/Submitted)

YCS offers guided hike focused on wild edibles

The hike is scheduled for July 10 at 10 a.m.

WildWise Yukon staff lead a bear awareness hike with YCS. It is among the popular specialty hikes offered by the YCS at Kwanlin/Miles Canyon during the summer. (YCS/Submitted)
Joel Krahn/joelkran.com Hikers traverse the Chilkoot Trail in September 2015. Alaska side.

The Canadian side of the Chilkoot Trail will open for summer

The Canadian side of the Chilkoot Trail will open for summer Parks…

Joel Krahn/joelkran.com Hikers traverse the Chilkoot Trail in September 2015. Alaska side.
A mocked-up version of the 180-page full-colour <em>Yukon Hiking</em> due out this month. (Submitted)

Take a hike: Popular Yukon Hiking website becoming hardcopy guidebook

The new title is set to hit the shelves in early December

A mocked-up version of the 180-page full-colour <em>Yukon Hiking</em> due out this month. (Submitted)
<em>Yukon Hiking</em> creators Meghan and Marko Marjanovic atop Tally-Ho in 2008. (Submitted)

Take a hike: Popular Yukon Hiking website becoming hardcopy guidebook

The new title is set to hit the shelves in early December

<em>Yukon Hiking</em> creators Meghan and Marko Marjanovic atop Tally-Ho in 2008. (Submitted)
Fossil finds at Mt. Stephen. (Photo: Sarah Fuller/Parks Canada)

Extreme hiking, time travel and science converge in the Burgess Shale

Climb high in the alpine and trace your family tree back millions of years – to our ocean ancestors

  • Nov 30, 2020
Fossil finds at Mt. Stephen. (Photo: Sarah Fuller/Parks Canada)

C/TFN announces Montana Mountain reopening plan

Carcross/Tagish First Nation and the Carcross/Tagish Management Corporation announced the partial reopening…

Yukoners discover local hikes

“Everybody’s just getting outside”

Looking ahead to a different kind of summer

Recreation plans change for many