Gold Panning
Step back in time and experience the thrill of gold panning in Alaska. With Voyij's hands-on tours, you'll learn mining history, hear legendary tales, and try your luck at striking gold in real streams and historic sites. Perfect for families, kids, and history buffs, this interactive adventure captures the spirit of Alaska's Gold Rush era.
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Yukon Sled Dog & Panning For Gold Adventure
Board our 15 to 25 passenger mini-coach to explore the White Pass elevation 3,292 feet all the way to the Yukon. With stops to get out and see amazing waterfalls up to 3,000 feet tall, glaciers, alpine valleys, snow-capped mountains, and huge mountain lakes. Your guide will tell you gold rush stories, lots of history, and information about the plants and animals in this wild and beautiful land. This is your best chance for wildlife viewing in Skagway. We’ll see the White Pass Trail of ‘98, the Fantail Trail, and Summit & Fraser Lakes before passing back into the boreal forest for Lakes Tutshi and Tagish. Enjoy lunch at Caribou Crossing (included) and the amazingly beautiful Emerald Lake. The sled dog adventure takes place in a remote portion of Canada. Play with the puppies while learning what a mushers life is all about. On this 20 minute/1.3 mile ride you will be amazed by the dogs' power, grace, and love for running as you fly up and down through this alpine wilderness. Enjoy the experience of panning for REAL gold and the thrill of finding those little shiny gold pieces.
Skagway Gold Panning Experience
We are excited to offer a new gold panning experience right in downtown Skagway! Come on down to Klondike Tours Gifts at 351 Broadway and get your arms moving to shake the gold loose. Everyone gets a choice of a Cheechaco pan where everyone finds gold or a Sourdough pan with pay dirt where you have a chance to strike it rich or go broke the way true Alaskan miners did it. The adventure takes 20 to 30 minutes and can be done any time of the day from 9 am to 5 pm seven days a week. Being in the center of the shopping district, it is easy to fit in around a busy schedule. We will weigh your gold for you. After having your new riches weighed for you have them put into a bezel and made into a necklace or keychain for a great souvenir from Alaska. Tour Details: As a family-run business, we do our very best to treat everyone as we would hope that our family would be treated. When you come to us to have fun get ready for fun! Get ready to be treated as one of the team. Klondike Tours has enjoyed over 20 years of showing off our small slice of heaven here in Southeast Alaska and enjoyed every moment of it! Join us on our new adventure!
Back Alley Gold Panning
We offer gold panning right on the premises. We have a large yard for this and more, including a rock and sculpture garden. Everyone is guaranteed to get real gold. We are located right in the center of town and offer this gold panning experience as a highlight to your day in Skagway.
Musher's Camp & Gold Panning
This authentic Alaskan tour begins with a bus ride through Skagway to our dog camp deep in the Tongass National Forest. Once you arrive, you will attend a presentation from our mushers where you will learn all there is to know about the sport, as well as meet these professional athletes and their pups! After this, get ready to feel like an early explorer by panning for gold in our riverside sluice. Top it off by traversing our scenic grounds and visiting our gift shop before returning to town. Your journey begins with an entertaining historic tour from your knowledgeable guide through downtown Skagway and along nine miles of stunning coastline to our Adventure Camp in Dyea. Kick off your visit with what we like to call a “Musher Talk.” We have been sharing our passion for dog sledding for years, and in that time, we have gathered up the most frequently asked questions about the sport. In the Musher Talk, we will share fascinating information about this extreme Alaskan state sport and welcome any additional questions you may have. Of course, we make sure you have plenty of time to meet some of the actual athletes who do these amazing things, our sled dogs! Not to worry—we have litters of puppies too that are ready for cuddles and kisses. Human socialization is actually essential to their development and racing success. After that, take a chance to pan for gold in our riverside sluice! Once your guide shows you the art of gold panning, you can test your luck to see what you can find while learning about the history of the gold rush that took off from this area. Then you will have time to take a short self-guided nature hike next to a beautiful waterfall and dense Alaskan forest or browse the gift shop and relax in our saloon with a deck overlooking the picturesque stream. All of this in a spectacular Alaskan setting! This is a tour full of Alaskan adventure, history, and awe-inspiring wilderness. Tour Itinerary 35 minutes Narrated scenic drive from the dock to our Adventure Camp 30 minutes Restroom break followed by interactive presentation about dog mushing 20 minutes Time to meet the sled dogs and play with the puppies! 20 minutes Test your luck and pan for gold! 20 minutes Free time at camp to browse the gift shop, hike to a waterfall viewpoint, or use the restrooms 40 minutes Return drive back to town
Gold Panning at Clear Creek
We will teach you the ropes with a gold panning demonstration in our elevated troughs by our rustic gift shop. Personalized how-to demonstrations will have you panning like a pro while providing some local humor and history along the way. The canvas-covered log-framed structure where we pan for gold is located just across from our walking bridge, between our office and the gift shop. Depending on the salmon run, we can often spy salmon in the creek. The covered troughs allow us to stay dry while panning, which makes this the perfect activity, rain or shine! We pan in elevated wooden troughs with proven pay dirt so there is a possibility of everyone taking home their very own Alaskan Gold and gems!
Gold Panning at Clear Creek and Exit Glacier Nature Hike Combo
This 2.5 hr. Exit Glacier nature hike and the Gold Panning at Clear Creek panning area located on Adventure Sixty North property is great for, viewing a glacier without getting on the ice and combining a bit of Alaskan history by learning how to find gold in a gold pan the Alaskan way! We will hike with you and provide a bit of glacier knowledge and local interpretive information as we hike to the toe overlook of Exit Glacier. The Gold panning demonstration and panning adventure will happen at our Clear Creek panning site on our property using our rustic water troughs, and our tarp-covered log structure for protection from wind and rain. Everyone finds gold and other semi-precious stones, we don't know how much you will find, but we do guarantee that you will at least find flakes of the precious mineral that is included with our pay dirt. You keep what you find, we supply the pans, local information, a bit of history mixed with a bit of geology, humor, instruction, and glass vials for your gold specimens and a container for your semi-precious stones. Garnets, Fluorite, Quartz, Red Jasper, and many others. About Gold Panning: We will teach you the ropes with a gold panning demonstration in our elevated troughs by our rustic gift shop. Personalized how-to demonstrations will have you panning like a pro while providing some local humor and history along the way. Truly an Alaskan experience! Where we pan for gold: The canvas-covered log-framed structure where we pan for gold is located just across from our walking bridge, between our office and the gift shop. Depending on the salmon run, we can often spy salmon in the creek. The covered troughs allow us to stay dry while panning, which makes this the perfect activity, rain or shine! We pan in elevated wooden troughs with proven pay dirt so there is a possibility of everyone taking home their very own Alaskan Gold and gems! Find more than gold: Learn how to pan, searching for gold and semi-precious stones that we also find around Alaska. Some treasures can include, Red Jasper, Hemalyke, Fluorite, Quartz, Amethyst, Red Agate, Tourmaline, and Garnet. About Exit Glacier Hike: This 2.5 hr. hiking adventure is great for, viewing a glacier without getting on the ice, families, groups, or adventurers with limited time to experience the beauty of a glacier in Seward, Alaska. These trips are offered morning and afternoon. Masks are required for the shuttle transportation and the hiking shuttle by everyone! Federal regulations, CDC, Local and State rules and regulations apply! Drivers will take temp before boarding the shuttle and those with fever will not be permitted to board. Safety First! What To Expect: This trip departs from Adventure Sixty North at the north end of Seward. We will shuttle you from and to your local B&B, local campground, and local Hotels at no cost! We will head to Exit Glacier to begin your hike with knowledgeable guides. As we drive out to the glacier, we will stop at the pull-out for a great view of Exit Glacier, a definite photo moment! Our shuttle van will also stop at the Kenai Fjords National Park welcome sign for a photo opportunity! The visitor center stop is a favorite of our guests and after that brief stop, we are all about the hike to the overlook where you will be looking down onto the toe of the Exit Glacier. What to Consider: This hiking experience goes rain or shine, there can be a definite change in temperature as you get close to the glacier with breezes blowing down from the Ice Field. We recommend that you take an extra layer if you typically are cold-natured. The hiking trail is a partially black-toped trail that turns into an undeveloped hiking trail which can be slippery and challenging to people that are not used to hiking nature trails. At points, you will hike on gravel, rock and encounter a narrow beam bridge crossing small drainage. If you consider yourself unstable with walking on an undeveloped trail as described, we recommend that you not participate in this hike for your safety!
Gold Dredge 8 Tour
Strike it rich in the gold fields of Alaska! Your tour will take you into the heart of the gold fields of the Tanana Valley where you will feel the history come alive! * Historic Gold Dredge 8 Gold Dredge 8 operated in the Goldstream Valley of Fairbanks from 1928 to 1959 and extracted millions of ounces of gold from the frozen Alaskan Ground. Today, Gold Dredge 8 is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and the site is a U.S. Historic District. The dredge serves as a monument to the hard working miners who built Fairbanks. You will have the opportunity to be guided through the entire dredge as you see, touch and learn about the history that it contains and the dredge’s importance to the development of Fairbanks. * Living Mining Museum After you’ve experienced the Gold Dredge 8 up close, walk into our Main Camp and through our Mining Museum. Packed with history and artifacts from the early 1900’s, you’ll learn more about the entire gold mining process from cleaning the land, to thawing the frozen ground, to the final recovery of the gold. You’ll also learn the history of the hearty sourdoughs that first prospected in the area and the hundreds of workers that operated the dredges during their heyday. Finally, you’ll get a chance to see an array of ice age fossils that were found on these very grounds during the mining process. * Tanana Valley Railroad Your adventure begins at Gold Dredge 8 with a ride on a replica of the Tanana Valley Railroad near some of the original rail routes. Once aboard our narrow gauge railroad, you will enjoy a short narrated journey to the dredge. Your regular conductor and commentator is Earl Hughes, who provides festive music along your journey. You will also learn from actual working hands at sites along the way. * Gold Panning As part of your tour, Alaskan miners will show you how to pan for gold, and you will receive your own poke filled with pay dirt. Friendly guides are on hand to help you uncover the gold in your pan. Comfortable benches and warm water make this an easy and enjoyable experience. Everyone will share your excitement when you strike it rich— and nothing beats the thrill of taking home real Alaskan gold!
Yukon Adventure and Suspension Bridge
Start in town or at your ship on this 4.5 hour adventure. Board a passenger mini coach to explore the White Pass (elevation 3292 feet) all the way to the Yukon. With stops to get out and see amazing Waterfalls up to 3000 feet tall, Azure Glaciers, Alpine Valleys, Snow Capped Mountains and huge Mountain Lakes. Your Guide will tell you gold rush stories, lots of history, and information about the plants and animals in this wild and beautiful land. Together we venture up the Yukon highway beyond the historic White Pass Route. Look in awe at the landscape that contains the precipitous cliffs, deep valleys, majestic granite mountains and dangerously deep valleys where wild bears and other wildlife live. Admission to the Yukon Suspension Bridge includes full access to the Bridge - including the exhibits, the cafe, the gift shop and the restroom facilities. A complimentary passport stamp is also included!
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