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Click here for tourism and hiking
information about Keno City area.
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The location of Keno City, Yukon,
relative to Whitehorse, Yukon. Source GoogleEarth. |
Detailed view of Keno Hill, Minto
Hill, and Monument Hill, Keno City, Yukon. The blue dots
represent locations of images from many photographers, available on GoogleEarth. |
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Keno City is an historic mining
area - silver-rich galena was discovered in 1918. United Keno
Hill Mines established the original wooden signpost in 1956, as part
of meeting associated with the International Geophysical Year. The
sign post arrows provide the approximate distance to cities
represented by the meeting delegates. |
Frost polygons present at the top
of Monument Hill, Keno City area. The part of the mountain was
exposed about the ice and snow that shaped the area during the last
glaciation. Such areas are called “nunataks”.
Geologists conclude that 18,000 years ago, at the peak of the most
recent glaciation, valley glaciers occupied the valleys around the
lower parts of the Keno Hill mountains. Click
here for a simplified glacial history of the area. |
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An old mining cabin at Sheep
Camp, Keno Hill, Yukon. |
The front of the mining and
historic museum at Keno City. Without a doubt, of the many historic
museums that we have seen, this is one of the best, designed, laid
out, and staff with care, thoughtfulness, and attention to
detail. The new hard wood interior is as dramatic as the holdings. |
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Fireweed and delphinium flowers
growing wild beside the snack bar at Keno, July 27, 2008. |
Historic mine car at the 700
Mine, Keno Hill, Yukon. Access to the Alpine on Keno Hill is made
universally accessible by virtue of a network of old mine roads that
date back to 1918. July 27, 2008. |
Scenery and History:
Once above the treeline, the
subalpine and alpine are easily accessible. The area has an
history of mining, following discovery of silver in 1918. The target
was silver and lead, as galena. An old access road affords
access to the alpine on Keno Hill, Minto Hill and Monument Hill.
There are some old mining-related structures on the mountain and
caution is needed. As an aside, without the road access, rough
as it is, very few people would be able to reach the subalpine and
alpine meadows to enjoy the flowering plants and the scenery.
Click
here for an excellent on-line brochure that describes the
natural and societal history of the area, including hiking opportunities.
Flowering Plants:
Illustrated on these pages are
images of flowering plants photographed in the area of Mt Montana and
Sugarloaf Mountain, south of Carcross, Yukon, Canada. The
plants occur in the subalpine and alpine zones. The range of
species illustrated is not comprehensive. The intent is to illustrate
only a few of the many species that occur on Mt Montana and Sugarloaf
Mountain. A visit at different times of the summer will yield
different species in flower. Although focusing on this part of
Yukon, the wildflowers illustrated on these pages may occur elsewhere
in Yukon and in parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and Northwest Territories.
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