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Distance: 3 km
Elevation Gain: 239 m (784 ft)
Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Easy
A nice hiking trail for the whole family, with views of the beautiful Carmacks area. The well-built trail takes you through mixed forest and up to a grassy knoll with rocky bluffs looking out over the Nordenskiold River Valley. The valley stretching south to north is dotted with wetlands, farms and rolling hills with the North Klondike Highway below.
Elevation Gain: 239 m (784 ft)
Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Easy
A nice hiking trail for the whole family, with views of the beautiful Carmacks area. The well-built trail takes you through mixed forest and up to a grassy knoll with rocky bluffs looking out over the Nordenskiold River Valley. The valley stretching south to north is dotted with wetlands, farms and rolling hills with the North Klondike Highway below.
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October 30, 2021
DRM on King's Throne
We did this hike on October 24, 2021 in ideal conditions (firm snow, cool and not too hot). The trail was quite icy starting from the parking lot and snow packed once the elevation climbs. We followed foot steps in the snow about 300m before the ‘throne’ where we stopped because we didn’t ...
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October 26, 2021
Heather on Sheep Creek
As of October 24 (due to park closure) the roadway leading to the parking lot for Sheep Creek is blocked by a locked gate. We parked at the turn-off just past the Thechal Dhal visitors' centre and walked the ~4km in, adding about 25 minutes each way. Bikes would be perfect here, until it snows more.
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October 25, 2021
John H on Caribou Mountain
A quick update on the parking. The owner of the property up there has put a lot of No Parking signs. To be clear, you still have the right to park there, his property is well further up on the driveway. The trail on the side of the highway is part of the Highway tenure and most of the driveway is ...
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October 24, 2021
Marianna on Mount Perkins
We hiked Mount Perkins today Oct 24, 2021, only up to the false summit. It was a gorgeous day, it wasn’t hard to find the trail with GPS. We started late so didn’t have the time to go all the way up and in the snow it was slower anyway. The snow was helpful on the way down to buffer the steep de...
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October 24, 2021
Heather on The Tors
Tried to do the trail on Oct 24th, unfortunately got our Escape stuck about 2/3 of the way up the fire break road 😭. Just too wet in spots and not enough clearance. Thankfully got rescued by a friendly local with a pickup truck as the tow truck companies do not want to go out there! Suggest pa...
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