Camping

I highly recommend camping in the Yukon. We have managed to squeak in visits to two campgrounds this summer - and driven through another 6-8 and they have all been pretty amazing. More often than not they are half- to totally empty, and they seem to have developed the sites to create privacy and a sense of aloneness.

Best yet? Totally inexpensive, if not free-ish. Honest people pay $12/night, which includes firewood. Many less than honest people don't pay at all because it is totally the honour system. Even more reasonable? There is a yearly pass for $50 that allows you to camp in any territorial park anytime you want for the year. Great deal!

I would like to give a special call out to the territory. The sites are clean, the garbage is always empty, the firewood is free and the outhouses are the cleanest and least smelly I have ever seen! There are no showers and you pump the water, but honestly - so well kept.

All of the campgrounds I have been to are unbelievably beautiful! The territory is so pretty, and these camp grounds just take total advantage of that. Lots of water for Maui to get totally stinky in . Trails, trees, mountains - all so pretty.

Oh, and while bears might be around - camping without raccoons rocks!