The streets
Dirt roads.
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Dawson City is a town in Yukon, Canada, the territory's second most populous municipality after the capital, Whitehorse. It is famous as a boomtown of the Klondike Gold Rush from 1896 to 1899, and it keeps its dirt streets, wooden boardwalks and old false-front buildings. Before settlers and gold seekers arrived, the area was hunting land for the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, whose fishing camp of Tr’ochëk at the meeting of the Klondike and Yukon rivers was an important place and is now a National Historic Site. When gold was found, tens of thousands poured into the town in a short time. You see wide dirt streets lined with wooden boardwalks, colourful wooden houses and shops with tall flat fronts in gold-rush style, some leaning from frost heave. A rocky hill and the wide Yukon River lie behind, and in summer the sun stays up almost until midnight. It sits on the east bank of the Yukon River. Walking the town is free, and some historic buildings open for guided tours in summer.
Dirt roads.
Colourful wood.
Almost to midnight.
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Because the frozen ground heaves beneath them.
In summer, when buildings open and days are long.