{"id":2005,"date":"2009-07-01T19:54:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T02:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2016-09-12T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:23:11","slug":"the-ridge-road-heritage-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-ridge-road-heritage-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ridge Road Heritage Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s hike took us to just a few km from Dawson to the Ridge Road Heritage Trail<\/a>. This trail used to be the first government-built wagon road in the Yukon. It was built in 1899 as a major supply route to the mines on Dominion and Sulphur creeks, not far from Bonanza Creek.<\/p>\n

Quoting from the brochure:<\/p>\n

Roadhouses, stores and freighting companies operated successfully along the route despite spring glaciers and a steep descent to the placer mines. Gold miners along Bonanza Creek ridiculed Commissioner William Ogilvie for supporting the project and lobbied for a more convenient route. After good roads were completed up Bonanza and Hunker creeks, the Ridge Road was abandoned in 1902.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This trail takes approximately two days to hike end to end and there are campgrounds within a day’s hike of each trailhead. We only got to about 3km UP the Jackson Gulch trailhead before the mosquitoes had us running back to the van for cover!<\/p>\n

\"Jackson<\/a>

Jackson Gulch trailhead<\/p><\/div>\n

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I never tire of the sky up here. About 7:30PM.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"grouse\"<\/a>

grouse<\/p><\/div>\n

\"grouse\"<\/a>

grouse<\/p><\/div>\n

\"abandoned<\/a>

abandoned equipment<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some would find this land ‘monotonous’ but it never fails to take my breath away.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"About<\/a>

About 8PM<\/p><\/div>\n

\"grouse\"<\/a>

grouse<\/p><\/div>\n

\"spot<\/a>

spot mama and baby grouse!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"about<\/a>

about 9PM<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night’s hike took us to just a few km from Dawson to the Ridge Road Heritage Trail. This trail used to be the first government-built wagon road in the Yukon. It was built in 1899 as a major supply route to the mines on Dominion and Sulphur creeks, not far from Bonanza Creek. Quoting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[796,654,1469],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-city-tours","tag-hiking","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}