Ferry Crossing Dawson City Yukon

"Ferry Crossing Dawson City Yukon" by Debbie Oppermann. The George Black Ferry carries vehicles back and forth across the Yukon River at Dawson City Yukon Territory. West Dawson and Sunnydale has approximately 200 residents that choose to live there off the grid. The Top Of The World Highway, highway 9, runs from West Dawson to Highway 5 junction in Alaska. Every fall, when the seasonal ferry stops running, the roughly 200 residents of West Dawson are forced to make a choice: hunker down at home and wait for the river to freeze, or find a place to stay in town.Most years, that period of West Dawson being effectively cut off from town ends when the river freezes over and people can safely cross. The Yukon government typically builds and maintains an ice-road crossing for vehicles.