Whitehorse, Yukon

Today, we arrived in Whitehorse, Yukon to spend three or four days seeing all the wonderful sites of this historic city.

Whitehorse is named after the historic rapids of the Yukon River which resembled the flowing manes of charging white horses. On the "Trail Of 98", the stampedes had to bypass the treacherous water of Miles Canyon and White Horse Rapids south of the present city.

Whitehorse is now the Capital of the Yukon and it has a population of about 24,041. This is surprising when you remember that the total population of the Yukon is only about 32,000.

We're going to take a bus/train trip from Whitehorse to Skagway, Alaska. Skagway was one of the famous booming gold towns during the gold rush of 1898. Skagway has seen tens of thousands of fortune-seeking prospectors during the great Klondike Gold Rush.

We plan to stay in Whitehorse for about three days to make sure we don't miss seeing anything worthwhile.