Dawson City Area Events

Dawson City Calendar of Events     |     Dawson City Attractions

Dawson City Calendar of Events

May 21-22 - Dawson City 24th Annual International Gold Show

May 22 - Henry Gulch 5 km Run, Run  Dawson

June 4-6 - Weekend on the Wing, Tombstone Territorial Park

June 12 - Commissioner’s Tea and the Commissioner’s Klondike Ball

June 18 - Midnight Sun Golf Tournament – Top of the World Golf Course

June 21 - Aboriginal Day Celebrations

June 21 - Summer Solstice – longest day of the year

June 24-25 - Dust to Dawson – Motorcycle Rally

June 30 - July 4 - Yukon River Quest

July 1 - Canada Day Celebrations

July 1 - Yukon Gold Panning Championships

July 16-18 - Dawson City Music Festival

July 17 - International Dome Race

July 29-Aug 1 - Moosehide Gathering

Aug 6-8 - Couples, Ladies & Guys and Dolls Poker Tournaments

Aug 12-16 - Discovery Days Celebrations

Aug 12 - Author’s on Eighth – Literary walking tour and writing competition

Aug 12-15 - Yukon Riverside Arts Festival

Aug 14 - Discovery Day Run

Aug 14 - Discovery Days Golf Tournament – Top of the World Golf Course

Aug 15  - Klondike Valley Mud Bog

Sept 3-5 - Labour Day Mixed Slowpitch Tournament

Sept 4 - Great Klondike International Outhouse Race

Sept 10-13 - White Ram Poker Touraments

Sept 17 - Yukon Talent Night

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Dawson City Attractions

Such accessible attractions include: a leisurely promenade through town or by the river, shopping at the many souvenir and jewelry shops, hiking the majestic Yukon hills, visiting the local Art Gallery and Museum or discovering the surrounding historical buildings and artifacts.

Diamond Tooth Gerties – Canada’s first casino, visitors and locals alike gather to try their luck, enjoy a drink and watch Gertie and the Gold Rush Girls perform nightly. Palace Grand Theater, old time show.

Danoja Zho Cultural Center
Yukon Queen II
George Black Ferry
Yukon Rose – a renovated ship from 1800s
Historic walking tour
Robert Service Cabin
Jack London Cabin
Gold dredge and gold mining
Bonanza Creek – experience the thrill of discovering gold using original hand mining tools such as pick-ax, hand shovel and gold pan on gold claim No. 6 on historic Bonanza Creek.
Dawson City Museum – see displays of early mining history, antique trains and portraits of early life in Dawson
Tr’ondek Hwech’in Cultural Center – explore the culture of the native Han People who have lived and traveled through this region for millennia.
Jack London Cabin and Interpretive Centre – see photos, documents, newspaper articles and other memorabilia at this replica of London’s Klondike cabin.
Klondike gold fields
Gift shops
Old time historic feel. A gold rush town from the 1800s. In Gold Rush times was a booming place and was larger than San Francisco.
Wooden sidewalks, dirt roads, stop signs instead of stop lights
Music Festival
Discovery Days
Yukon Quest
The Trek Over the Top
Klondike Spirit Paddlewheeler

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