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Musher's Camp and Gold Panning Adventure
3.5

Musher's Camp and Gold Panning Adventure

By Alaska Excursions
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Learn about dog mushing and gold panning in this fun, family-friendly Alaskan experience! After arriving to our base camp, begin your tour with a Musher Talk, where the mushers share fascinating information about the Alaskan state sport of mushing. Of course, we make sure you have plenty of time to meet some of our professional athletes---our sled dogs and puppies! 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. Then you will have time to take a self-guided nature hike next to beautiful waterfalls 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. As a small, locally owned company we take pride in sharing our passion for mushing and for Alaska.
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Ages 0-110, max of 12 per group
Duration: 2h 45m
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
Meets animal welfare guidelines
Live guide: English
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  • Gold Panning equipment
  • Accommodation as per itinerary
What's not included
  • Gratuities
  • Rain gear
  • Lunch
  • (available for purchase)


Start:
  • 2nd Avenue & Broadway, 2nd Ave & Broadway, Skagway, AK 99840, USA
    Meet your driver at the NPS Visitor Center at 2nd & Broadway in town
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Stroller accessible
    • Infants must sit on laps
    • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
    If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 62390P8

    • Most travelers can participate
    • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
    • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
    • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers

    • All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalties.

    If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 62390P8

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    • 2nd Ave & Broadway, Skagway, AK 99840, USA
      Meet your driver at the NPS Visitor Center at 2nd & Broadway in town
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      Once you arrive to our Musher's Camp in Dyea, 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.
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      Skagway, Alaska
      Joined in June 2011
    • Dant6817
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Amazing experience
      It's a drive from the cruise port, but as you pass stunning scenery on the way the time flies by. They conveniently collect from the cruise ship. Once you get to the mountains you transfer to a huge WW2 truck that can climb into the mountains. This enhances the experience. The ziplines are lots of fun and go through the trees and over waterfalls.
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      Best zipline tour in Skagway
      This was one of our best tours we took of our boat, our guides Lee & Russel were outstanding from ensuring our safety to keeping the group relaxed and enjoying the trees ,fauna and nature around us . We were shown how to do a number of tricks which was great fun Would highly rate this tour
      Written October 16, 2024
    • D8158MZdaniel
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Musher's Camp
      We had a great time with Jena as our guide. She was very knowledgeable and fun. The sled dogs were more than happy to accommodate all of us. A great experience to be pulled by professional racing dogs.
      Written September 27, 2024
    • DavidB90744
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Mush Fun!
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    • minniemel8907
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Exception from start to finish
      Far beyond expectations! This tour was unbelievable. The dogs were amazing to see in action and I cannot say enough good things about every single person that we interacted with on the tour. Our bus driver/guide Rose gave us all the best pointers in town and now only did she drive us to the dog camp but she gave us a thorough history of Skagway on the way. A pirate story, the beauty of the land and everything. She was the best guide we had on any excursion on our vacation.
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    • georwell
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      Written September 8, 2024
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Great tour / Great Great guides /
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    • Mossienator
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Fun and up personal with the Alaskan Huskies
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    • michaelmF526WP
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      We would do this again and again!
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      Written September 4, 2024
    • GeorgiaMary
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      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      This exceeded my expectations!
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    • thomasaA998WR
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      Once in a lifetime experience! Great staff!
      Very special trip! Love seeing the dogs “working” and seeing puppies ( sharks ). Eric, John, Maya and Josh were awesome!
      Written September 3, 2024
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      Skagway Ziplining Fun!
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    Sarah D
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    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Guide Max was great. The experience was as expected, there was a talk about the sled dogs and time spent with teenage dogs. Our family was in a private tour and we had about 10 minutes with the puppies and Max took out three puppies for us to play with during that time so that everyone had multiple chances to hold and pet the puppies. We went panning for gold and everyone was excited to find gold and Max was super helpful and informative. We were offered free hot chocolate, tea, etc at the end which was a wonderful addition along with a few minutes to browse the onsite shop. Would definitely recommend as we were a group of young kids to grandparents and all enjoyed.
    Written July 9, 2024
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    Kimberly M
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    3.0 of 5 bubbles
    Jul 2024 • Couples
    I’ll agree with the commenter below that you barely got any time with the puppies. And I wasn’t really into the panning for gold personally but my husband had a good time. Eureka Joe was pretty awesome though!
    Written July 7, 2024
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    Angela L
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    2.0 of 5 bubbles
    Jul 2024 • Family
    Rose was an amazing tour guide!!
    The rest was quite disappointing.

    The Iditarod talk was longer than the whole 3 minutes that ONE person in our family got to hold and touch a musher puppy, which was the main reason we booked this excursion.

    When we went to the older puppy section, we weren’t able to even touch one of the pups, which was also disappointing. I think the explanation of the excursion should mention that you only have 5 minutes to see the puppies.

    Had Rose not been so educational and fun during our ride to the excursion and back, we’d probably be asking for a refund.
    Written July 6, 2024
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