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Yukon travel: From healing hot springs to hearty comfort food

Thinking caribou, gold panning and trappers? Try hot springs, fair trade lattes and pioneer-chic decor! Whitehorse inspires everything from fashion to down-home Far North cuisine.

Text by Amy Rosen; Food styling by David Grenier; Prop styling by Sasha Seymour Updated February 9, 2013

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Yukon gold

1 / 7 Murdoch's Gem Shop; Photo by Colin Way

Literature and gold

The Yukon is a surprising literary hub. Pick up a local read at Mac's Fireweed Books, or follow in the footsteps of Jack London, Pierre Berton and Andrew Pyper, and pen your own tale. Pyper researched his novel The Wildfire Season while he was a Berton House writer-in-residence in Dawson City. The territory's famed forest fires, bears and colourful characters provided a wealth of inspiration for his story. And on your way to striking literary gold, visit Murdoch's Gem Shop, where goldsmiths handcraft jewellery from gold nuggets.