LOCATION

Woodchopper Creek, a tributary of the upper Yukon River, part of the Yukon-Koyukuk Borough between the towns of Circle and Eagle, Alaska: 65.2947°N 143.4117°W. The Property is an inholding situated within the Yukon-Charley National Rivers Preserve managed by the US National Park Service (NPS).

The Property is located in the upper Yukon River basin in east-central Alaska about 70 miles west of the Canadian border. It is an uplands area of low-to-moderate size hills and mountains formed by an eastwest trending fault zone located at the northern base of the Alaska Range. The nearest population center is Circle, Alaska, a town having just over 100 full-time residents as of the 2010 census, which lies about 60 miles downriver from the property to the north-northwest.

Getting There

The Woodchopper Creek Gold Claim property is approximately 60 miles upstream from Circle, Alaska. Traveling 162 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Circle (population 100) is located at the end of the Steese Highway on the south bank of the Yukon River, 14 miles downriver from the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Access to the preserve via Circle is one of only two road-based options available.

Airport Services

Fairbanks International Airport is approximately 134 miles west of Circle, Alaska. Circle, Alaska, has a 2,500-foot by 60-foot gravel surface runway.