12 Quintessential Canadian Road Trips Klondike Highway, Yukon – where.ca

Emerald Lake (Photo: Yukon Government)

: Icefields Parkway (Photo: Martin de Witte)

: Photo: Chris Kasey

: Pacific Rim National Park (Photo: Tourism British Columbia)

: Dempster Highway in winter (Photo: Yukon Government)

: Garibaldi Provincial Park, off the Sea to Sky Highway (Photo: Peter M Graham)

: Tip of the Gaspé Peninsula and Percé Rock (Photo: Gilberto Rancourt)

: Photo: Northwest Territories Tourism

: Emerald Lake (Photo: Yukon Government)

: Peggy’s Cove (Photo: Erin Patterson)

: Porpoise Bay near Sechelt (Photo: Peter M Graham)

: FDR Cottage on Campobello Island (Photo: Rex Hammock)

: Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, Route 40 (Photo: Gord McKenna)

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Klondike Highway, Yukon

This former gold-rush route cuts 713 km from Skagway (Alaska) to Dawson City, Yukon. One of the highlights is the blue-green Emerald Lake—in fact, the five- to six-hour drive from Skagway to the lake is the most scenic part of the route, and most road trippers are content to just do that 300-km leg. The truly ambitious can do the entire 1,435-km Klondike/Kluane Loop, which hits Whitehorse, Dawson City and Kluane National Park.

Emerald Lake (Photo: Yukon Government)

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