Morning
Start with breakfast at Alchemy Cafe or the Aurora Inn dining room. Walk the wooden boardwalks — Front Street between King and Craig has the concentration of preserved gold rush facades. Duck into Parks Canada's Palace Grand Theatre and the Commissioner's Residence (free tours, allow an hour). Then drive up to the Midnight Dome for the panoramic over the Klondike-Yukon confluence — 15 minutes, gravel road, worth every kilometer. If it is summer, keep going along the Ridge Road for another 30 minutes.
Afternoon
Lunch at Klondike Kate's on the patio. Then either: (a) tour Dredge No. 4, the biggest wooden-hulled gold dredge in North America, $15, or (b) actually pan for gold at Claim 33 on Bonanza Creek, $20 and you keep what you find (spoiler: a flake). If you have kids, do both. If you have three hours and a sense of history, the Robert Service and Jack London cabin tours are quietly excellent — both writers actually lived here.
Evening + the Sourtoe
Dinner at the Aurora Inn. Then head to the Downtown Hotel for the Sourtoe Cocktail Club — a preserved human toe dropped into a shot of whiskey (or your drink of choice), $10 for the ceremony, certificate issued if the toe touches your lips. It is real. It is not a metaphor. Follow with a set at Diamond Tooth Gertie's, Canada's oldest casino, $15 cover, cancan shows nightly. Sleep at Bombay Peggy's — a restored former brothel, $180, perfect.
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