Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site
Dredge No. 4
The largest wood-hulled bucket dredge in North America, an eight-storey “iron beast” that sits in the valley where it dug its last rich ground.
Dredge No. 4 was built in 1912 by the Canadian Klondike Mining Company. Its hull is roughly two and a half tennis courts long and about eight storeys tall. It worked the riverbed with a chain of giant buckets, mining for gold until 1959. The gravel piles it left behind still define the landscape of Bonanza Creek valley. It is a Parks Canada National Historic Site, and in summer you can join a guided tour inside to see the machinery and learn how the workers lived. It is about 13 km along Bonanza Creek Road, roughly 20 minutes’ drive from Dawson City. There is no public transport, so you need to drive or join a tour.
Opening hours
Summer guided tours approx. 09:00–17:00; exterior viewable in winter
Nearby sights
- Discovery Claim National Historic Site
- Midnight Dome
- Crocus Bluff
- Robert Service Cabin
- Jack London Museum & Cabin
- Dawson City Museum
- Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall
- Old Post Office