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Day 3 – Journey to Wilderness Outpost
Explore the trails behind the homestead fields where high cut banks and bluffs offer expansive views of the river and valley below. Join your fellow travelers for a hearty, home-cooked, homestead breakfast. Travel down river to Fort Selkirk, where the Yukon’s settler history comes alive through the old log buildings and homesteader stories, brought back to life through the ongoing restoration by the Selkirk First Nation. Immerse yourself in history as you explore the ancient fort and imagine what it used to be like – a thriving town accessible only by water. Fort Selkirk was a mélange of different cultures – the settlers who worked the land and ran the commerce, the gold miners who depended upon this spot of civilization as they trudge northward to the gold fields of Dawson City, and the First Nations who were integral to the development and success along the river.
Fort Selkirk – A Walk through Yukon History
In the 1840s, Robert Campbell selected the Fort Selkirk site—a traditional gathering and trading site of First Nations peoples—as the location for the first Hudson Bay Company fort and trading post established in the Yukon. Today, it stands today largely intact and it remains accessible only by river.
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