Mosaic at the rest area visitor information coming into the town of Carmacks. Carmacks was named for George Carmack, who established a trading post here in 1890s. Carmack had come North in 1885, hoping to stike it rich. He spent the next 10 years prospecting without success. In 1896, when the trading post went bankrupt, Carmack moved his family to Fortymile, where he could fish to eat and cut timber to sell. That summer, Carmack's remarkable persistence paid off--he unearthed a 5-dollar pan of coarse gold, during a time when a 10-cent pan was considered a good find. That same winter, he extracted more than a ton of gold from the creek, which he renamed Bonanza Creek, and its tributary, Eldorado. When word of Carmack's discovery reached the outside world the following spring, it set off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Trumpeter swans nesting in one of the lakes south of Carmacks.
Fox Lake still frozen.
Mosaic at the rest area visitor information coming into the town of Carmacks. Carmacks was named for George Carmack, who established a trading post here in 1890s. Carmack had come North in 1885, hoping to stike it rich. He spent the next 10 years prospecting without success. In 1896, when the trading post went bankrupt, Carmack moved his family to Fortymile, where he could fish to eat and cut timber to sell. That summer, Carmack's remarkable persistence paid off--he unearthed a 5-dollar pan of coarse gold, during a time when a 10-cent pan was considered a good find. That same winter, he extracted more than a ton of gold from the creek, which he renamed Bonanza Creek, and its tributary, Eldorado. When word of Carmack's discovery reached the outside world the following spring, it set off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Trumpeter swans nesting in one of the lakes south of Carmacks.
Fox Lake still frozen. 
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