Start from 31 curated places around Whitehorse, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Klondike Rib & Salmon
Summer-only institution in two leaning historic buildings on 2nd Avenue — the oldest operating structures in Whitehorse — serving bison, elk, caribou, and Yukon River salmon to a line that wraps around the block. Loud, crowded, the meal visitors talk about back home.
Burnt Toast Cafe
Downtown brunch room on Main Street with a long line of locals on weekends — eggs benedict variations, brioche french toast, and a coffee program that holds up. The room is small and the brunch turn is slow; that's the deal.
Trails & outdoors
Miles Canyon Trails
Network of singletrack and gravel paths along both banks of the basalt canyon south of town — easy lollipop loops crossing the suspension footbridge, with longer extensions out to Canyon City and back along the rim.
Grey Mountain
Wooded peak rising directly east of downtown across the river, with a gravel road climbing to a saddle and singletrack to the summit. The view from the top is the whole Whitehorse valley laid out, the airport, the river bends, and the Coast Mountains on a clear day.
Things to do
MacBride Museum of Yukon History
Downtown museum on the riverfront covering Yukon history from First Nations through the gold rush, the Alaska Highway construction, and the territorial era. Sam McGee's cabin sits on the grounds and the gold-panning demos run all summer.
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Museum near the airport telling the story of the Ice Age land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska when the Yukon was an unglaciated steppe — woolly mammoth, giant beaver, and short-faced bear skeletons fill the main hall.
Landmarks & sights
SS Klondike National Historic Site
Beached sternwheeler on the Yukon River bank south of downtown, the largest paddleboat to run the river before the highway killed the trade in the 1950s. Restored to her 1937 configuration with guided tours through the boilers, freight deck, and staterooms.
Miles Canyon
Basalt-walled gorge a few minutes south of downtown where the Yukon River squeezes through columnar cliffs the gold-rush stampeders had to portage around. A wooden suspension footbridge crosses the narrows and links into a network of riverbank trails.