Yukon Excursions Hidden Highlights

People love coming to Alaska so they can travel to Canada. From Skagway, it’s only 15 miles to Canada and 35 more miles to the Yukon Territory. Cruise ship passengers can take a bus or train tour to the Yukon for less than the cost of something that costs about 125 bucks. That’s cheap. Today, we are going to take a look at our popular Yukon Excursions but not in the way you might expect. You see, we are going to review some hidden highlights on your Yukon Tour. Pretty neat, eh?

What the heck is a Canadian Territory?

We hear this question a lot. Canada doesn’t have states like we do in the United States. Our northern neighbors live in geographical regions called Provinces. They probably don’t call them the “United” Provinces because of Quebec. Anyway, there are three geographical locations that don’t qualify as Provinces so they call them Territories.

Why doesn’t Canada allow Territories like the Yukon to become Provinces? Because they don’t want to become like the United States where regions with small populations have equal power to regions with much larger populations. Hey, leave the U.S. out of this, Canada. You don’t hear us complaining about what you did to bacon!

Oh right. We are talking about the hidden highlights of Yukon Excursions

When you look at the tour description for your Yukon excursion it’s going to list all of the highlights like Carcross, Bove Island, and the White Pass Summit. Well, let me tell you that you can’t miss the highlights because that’s the entire focus of the tour. They should call highlights spoilers because they just describe what you’re going to see before you see it.

There are some Yukon excursions hidden highlights that your tour guide probably doesn’t know about unless they read this informative blog. Be the smart person on your tour when you point out these lesser-known gems…

The Conrad Tramway – You are going to drive right by this landmark on the Klondike Highway about 15 miles past the Yukon border and won’t have any idea what it is. It’s a tramway tower that was built in 1904 and ran from the lake all the way into the high alpine. Mined ore was carried down the gravity-fed tramway while supplies for the miners went back up the mountain. Fun fact: the fellow that designed this tramway, which was the first of its kind, went on to strike it rich when he invented the ski lift!

Wynton – The landmass right next to the Yukon border sign is called Wynton. In 1905, two hotels were built here. One was cleverly called The Wynton and the other was the Lakeview. There was also a sawmill in Wynton that supplied lumber to Conrad City and Whitehorse. However, the sawmill closed when the two owners tried to find out if they could use a canoe to get the lumber to Whitehorse and they drowned in Miles Canyon. On the plus side, they did find out the answer was “no.”

There are more hidden highlights on your Yukon Excursion

Indeed, there are, but we are out of room in today’s blog so we will have to save the rest of those hidden highlights for another time. Or, simply ask your tour salesperson at M&M Tours in Skagway about hidden tour highlights and they will regale you with all sorts of interesting facts about Canada and the Yukon.