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Updated July 2022 What is the Organ Pipe Cactus? It is both a plant and the name of a park. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a park in southern Arizona on the border with Mexico. The park was created, Read more…
San Ignacio – Mulege Driving Baja California – Part Five Updated July 2022 This is part five of the “Driving the Baja Peninsula” series. Click the Travel menu at the top for the other parts. San Ignacio It is an Read more…
Visit a wonderful, remote park in Canada’s North Tombstone Territorial Park Updated Apr 2022 Tombstone Territorial Park is located about 72 km north of Dawson City in Yukon Territory in Canada’s north. To get there drive north on the Dempster Read more…
Searching for Gold in the Canadian Klondike Updated June 2022 Gold was discovered at Bonanza Creek in the Klondike area of the Yukon in northern Canada in 1896. Unfortunately, all the easy pickings were taken by 1902, but there is Read more…
Updated June 2022 Things I wanted to see and do in southern Yukon: Visit Kluane National Park, the home of Canada’s highest mountains. Find and photograph Dall Sheep, a white sheep that normally live high up in the mountains. See Read more…
Welcome to the Gold Rush of 1899 Updated Apr 2022 Dawson City owns its existence as a direct result of the Klondike gold discovery in 1896 in the nearby creeks. Founded in 1897 and incorporated as a city in 1902. Read more…
The Klondike Gold Rush The history of the Klondike Gold Rush and how to reenact it. Updated June 2022. Gold was discovered in the Klondike region of the Yukon, in Canada, in 1896. In 1897, word of the strike reached Read more…
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