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Practicalities
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Dawson City's
airport
, 19km southeast of the town on the Klondike Hwy, is used by scheduled Alkan Air (tel 668-2107 or 1-800/661-0432) services to Inuvik (NWT), Old Crow, Mayo and Whitehorse, and by Air North (tel 668-2228 or 1-800/661-0407 in Canada, 1-800/764-0407 in the US,
www.airnorth.yk.net
) services to Fairbanks (4 weekly), Whitehorse, Watson Lake and Juneau. Dawson City Courier
buses
(tel 993-6688) to and from Whitehorse arrive and depart from behind the visitor centre (daily in summer at 1pm, arrives Whitehorse 9pm; $72). Tickets for all air services, Alaska and BC ferries, sightseeing
tours
of the gold fields
, and popular four-wheel-drive vehicle tours can be arranged at the excellent Gold City Travel on Front Street opposite the SS
Keno
(tel 993-5175 or 993-6424, fax 993-5261). If you need to
rent a car
or 4x4 for the Dempster Hwy
, contact Budget, 451 Craig St (tel 993-5644,
www.yukon.net/budget
).
Another way of exploring the surroundings of Dawson is to take a Gray Line cruise on the Yukon Queen , which in summer runs daily on the Yukon River, offering a day-long round trip of 105 miles for $209. Stand-by, round trip and one-way tickets are available from Yukon Queen River Cruise on Front Street (tel 668-3225, fax 667-4494). Shorter and cheaper ($45) ninety-minute river trips are available on the Yukon Lou from the dock behind the Birch Cabin ticket office close to the SS Keno (tel 993-5482). Trans North Helicopters (tel 993-5494) run helicopter trips over the gold fields, the Klondike Valley and Midnight Dome: fixed-wing plane tours are available from Siston Air (tel 993-5599) and Bonanza Aviation (tel 993-5209). For further details of tours and general information, contact the Visitor Reception Centre on Front Street (tel 993-5566). Information is also available from the public library on 5th and Queen (Tues, Wed & Fri noon-7pm, Thurs noon-8pm, Sat 11am-5pm). For books and guides visit Maximilian's (tel 993-5486) on the corner of Front and Queen.
Currency exchange
and ATM facilities exist at the CIBC bank (tel 993-5447) on Queen Street, between Front and 2nd, while
maps
are available from the mining recorder's office alongside the
post office
(Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm; tel 993-5342) on 5th Street between Harper and Princess. For
showers
(there are none at the
Yukon River Campground
), the most central are the tight-fit bathrooms at the laundry behind the Chief Isaac Hale building alongside the visitor centre. There are also showers at the municipal
swimming pool
by the museum. Other useful information
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