Museums & culture

Kluane National Park and Reserve

Canada's tallest peaks, the largest non-polar icefields on Earth, and grizzly-dense valleys within a two-hour drive of Whitehorse.

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Tombstone Territorial Park

2,200 square kilometres of jagged granite spires, permafrost tundra and Beringian wildlife along the Dempster Highway.

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Ivvavik National Park

A roadless Arctic park protecting the Porcupine caribou calving grounds and the wild Firth River, reachable only by bush plane.

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Vuntut National Park

A 4,345 sq km roadless wilderness of Beringian tundra and the Old Crow Flats, co-managed with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.

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Herschel Island - Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park

Yukon's only Arctic Ocean island, a 19th-century American whaling station and now a climate-change frontline eroding into the sea.

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Fishing Branch Ni’iinlii Njik Territorial Park

The 'ice bears' of the Fishing Branch — grizzlies that fish chum salmon in an unfrozen river while covered head to toe in hoarfrost.

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Coal River Springs Territorial Park

A rare set of active tufa terraces — travertine 'staircases' formed by mineral springs — in a remote corner of the southeast Yukon.

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Agay Mene Territorial Park

A newer 767 sq km park of quiet boreal lakes and moose meadows co-established with Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

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Kusawa Territorial Park

A 3,100 sq km glacial lake and mountain park an hour west of Whitehorse — the classic Yukon paddle and campground.

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