Dawson City Poker Run
Gertie's Opening Night
May
Dawson's Dirt Road Dash Poker Run. Public Hosted by Sarah Loveall, Carolyn Elizabeth Boone and Dawndee Pastore. Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM EDT.
DCHS cross country runners picked up a card at the Ranger-Review last Friday as part of their “poker run.” Asier Sarriegi and Jacob Parent claim cards as Julia Crighton waits her turn. The poker run is a pre-competition ritual for the team. Trek Over The Top is the most fun you can have with your snow pants on! It’s a poker run from Tok, Alaska to Dawson City, YT. 200 Miles one way, 200 miles back and a weekend party in Canada in between. This is the premier sledding event of the north! Considered Yukon’s premier event Dawson City hosts hundreds of sled enthusiasts each season. After researching and doing some rough planning, I decided I could attend the Dust to Dawson 2015 event in Dawson City and follow that with a run to Inuvik. The Dempster is a reasonably well maintained but desolate gravel, shale and dirt road that is the only route between the Klondike Highway south of Dawson City in the Yukon and Inuvik in the. To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for.
Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall opens its doors for another season!
Dawson Daily News Print & Publishing Festival
May
Visual artists, musicians, writers, and publishers work in a collaborative atmospher
Commissioner's Ball
June
Join us for tea and be a part of this long-standing Dawson City tradition.
This tradition, kick-started by the Martha Black in 1912, sees the Commissioner host an extravagant luncheon for Dawson residents and visitors alike. Dress in your favourite summer dress or fashionable shirt and sit amid the Commissioner’s prize winning gardens.
After the tea and celebrations, take a tour of the historic and beautifully restored building with one of friendly guides. As you explore antique furnished rooms, you’ll hear stories about the past inhabitants and the golden age of Dawson City.
Midnight Romance Golf Tournament
June
Come golf under the midnight sun at the Dawson City Golf Course!
Yukon River Quest
June
Whitehorse to Dawson City, YT
Dawson City Poker Run Games
An annual 715 k.m. canoe and kayak race, from Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon. Racers endure the challenges of being on the great river day and night till the reach Dawson City.
Book early, it’s a real busy weekend…
Yukon Goldpanning Championships
July
Front Street, Dawson City, YT
Gold miners of all ages face off in gold panning races, to see who can sift their pan of gold the fastest. Other events to do with the gold mining industry take place throughout the town as well.
Moosehide Gathering
Bi-yearly (2022)
The Moosehide Gathering is an inclusive event that brings together people from across Canada as well as Alaska and beyond. Come share in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and other Indigenous culture – enjoy performances, guest speakers, feasts, dancing, drumming, singing and more. Artisans among you are invited to bring arts and crafts; musicians are encouraged to bring instruments. Catch up with old friends and make new friends. Everyone is welcome at Moosehide Gathering.
Yukon Riverside Arts Festival
August
A city wide art weekend highlighting the Arts community that make Dawson City so eclectic.
White Ram Poker Tournaments
Diamont Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall
September
If your feeling lucky, then make sure to join in on the competition at the poker tournament, The White Ram Poker Tournament is the largest poker run in the North.
Klondike Gold Show Weekend
May
Is an event held by the Camber of Commerce that holds an industrial and consumer trade show for the people of Dawson to purchase and sell items, mostly relating to the gold mining industry.
This is the weekend when Dawson City kicks off the summer season for good as well.
Dempster to Dawson City Solstice Race
June
Celebrate the longest day of the year under the midnight sun with a run (or walk) along the Klondike River valley into historic Dawson City. Make a weekend of it and take in all that Dawson City has to offer
Dust to Dawson
June
One of the Bunkhouse Favourites.
Is a motorcycle riding event, put on in loving dedication to a fallen rider. In memory of an unforgettable friendship and the inspiration of the open road.
The weekend is filled with motorcycle games, poker runs in the goldfields and much more fun to be had!
National Idigenous Peoples Day & SummerSolstice
June
Top of the Midnight Dome
Add On this day, people of the community are brought together to the top of Midnight Dome to witness the beautiful sight of the sun wrapping itself around our bowl of paradise.Please note that Summer Solstice is not a commercially organized or sonsoured event. It is for all locals and tourist to enjoy, and is completely up to the individual to make it to the Midnight Dome. Details here
Canada Day
July 1st
Enjoy the celebration of our great country by joining in on the parade with decretive floats, eating some delicious Canada Day cake at the museum and many other fun activities.
Do it Dawson Style.
Dawson City Music Festival
July
This event without any doubt is one of the biggest to happen in our community, where local and out of town musicians come to share their music with the community. There are many different performances all throughout Dawson City for everyone to enjoy all weekend long.
Discovery Days
August
During this weekend the community comes together to celebrate the discovery on Bonanza Creek made by Geroge Carmack, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie. On this weekend you can take part of the Discovery Days Fastball or Golf Tournament, and also check out the Klondike Valley Mud Bog where people in the community compete their souped up trucks in the mud.
Labour Day Slow Pitch Classic (Baseball Tournament)
September
This annual slow-pitch tournament is an event you don’t want to miss!
Different teams from all around the Yukon, come to Minto Park or Crocus Bluff ball fields in Dawson City to face off against one another in this highly entertaining tournament!
Cheer on your favourite teams while enjoying snacks provided at the concession stand!
Gerties Last Show
The final can-can show of the season! The most anticipated show of them all is always unpredictable, impressive and hilarious. Watch the dancers show off their skills, and listen as Gertie belts out some of her favourite tunes. The show is always packed, so get there early to guarantee you get in!
Bikers have Sturgis. Sledders have Trek Over the Top. The Trek runs for two-hundred miles between Tok, Alaska, and Dawson City, Yukon, making it an International event. Trail groomers hit the snow-covered Taylor and Top of the World highways, opening them for winter access to some of the most spectacular views in the north.
The snowmobile Trek runs three consecutive weekends, starting with the last weekend in February. SnowRider staff attended the middle snowmobiling weekend in 2006–and certainly hope to make a few more Treks in the coming years. The 2007 event marks the 15th Anniversary of the Trek, also called the Annual Tok to Dawson Poker Run. We met snowmobilers who had made every run, and we could certainly see why.
Photo courtesy Tourism Yukon |
We left Tok around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning once the sun was up, at -35 degree temperatures. Out of more than 200 sleds participating, we were the only ones doubling, so certainly didn’t want to get away late. We soon discovered, however, that even though the trail ran over summer paved highways, it was anything but a speed run.
Dawson City Poker Runs
The trail started out relatively easy, following a few miles of ditches on the Alaska Highway until we hit the Taylor, so beyond the usual lumps and bumps there was nothing out of the ordinary. The Taylor Highway to the tiny winter-bound community of Chickenwas wide and winding, with lots of opportunity to get flying. Mind you, as the road dropped onto the valley floor the temperatures plummeted too, hitting -40 and lower.
One of the most welcome sights along the trail was the crackling woodstove and warm-up opportunity in Chicken. We stopped to help fix another driver’s broken sled, fueled up, and hit the trail again.
The real challenge of the ride began after the 75-mile point, leaving Chicken. Here, the mountains got steeper and the roads got twistier–mind you, it was certainly easier to keep warm as we rode harder. We continued the 60-miles into Boundary, fueled up again, and started the toughest part of the journey.
We hit the first of the Terrible Terraces, or spots where the highway was at the top of the mountain, so the howling winds had buried the road in hard-packed snow, making it the traditional 45 degree angle ditch of the prairies. Only this time down was a thousand feet or more over the edge.
Sidehilling at the top of a mountain with two riders was challenging, but after the first half-mile or so, just another road hazard to take in stride. Once in awhile we even took a few glances at the incredible vista of the treeline spread out below us.
Whoever said there’s no wind in the north has never snowmobiled the Top of the World Highway! The last ten miles out of Dawson City our heads were bent into the wind to keep our helmets in place, and driving definitely meant being attentive to where the wind might blow the snow machine.
By early afternoon we wound down the mountain to sled over the frozen Yukon River into Dawson City. First checkpoint was Customs, set up at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s, which was soon to become one of our favorite places in Dawson City.
Photo in Dawson City by Linda Aksomitis |
But the Trek is far from over when you arrive in Dawson City on Thursday afternoon! From here it’s all about fun, from settling in at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s for the evening meals and entertainment, to discovering historic Dawson City, to visiting the half dozen other great places to socialize. Of course there’s more sledding too, with trails to ride and poker hands to play.
One thing we can guarantee, is that when you leave Dawson City on Sunday morning for that two hundred mile ride back to Tok, Alaska, you’ll be glad you took the Trek.
For full information and registration details see: http://www.trekoverthetop.com/