Carmacks, Yukon

Carmacks is a village with 503 inhabitants (as of 2011) on the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory.

The town lies on the Klondike Highway and is the western terminus of the Robert Campbell Highway. One of four bridges over the Yukon is located in Carmacks.

Indians of the Little Salmon / Carmacks First Nation living in the region. The place is by George Carmack, a prospector, which has long been attributed to the discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek, which triggered the Gold Rush of the Klondike River, named. In the 1890s he discovered near the present city of a coal mine. In the area around Carmacks there are rich deposits of coal, copper and gold, which are mined industrially.

For the culture of northern Tutchone informed the daily Cho Hudän Interpretive Centre.