Welcome North! Opened by Murray Lundberg in March 1999, ExploreNorth is the world's largest website that focusses on travel in, and the history of, Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia. The site currently (March 2026) consists of over 32,400 files (approximately 5,400 pages) taking up 8.1 GB of space. As well, the companion ExploreNorth Blog which we started on April 25, 2006, has over 1,700 posts with over 29,000 photos.
ExploreNorth was a major upgrade to a website opened in February 1997 to promote Murray's first book, Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams, but with articles about Yukon and Alaska history being added as there was almost nothing online then, the title of the website soon became "Yukon & Alaska History."
The thousands of pages of information rely heavily on photography, both historic and current, to share our passion for this region. The site is constantly being worked on, with pages being added and/or edited.
This Week's Features:
Exploring a historic mining trail at Tutshi Lake, BC On August 2nd, my friend Kevin and I returned to a mining trail leading up a spectacular ridge at the south end of Tutshi Lake, having got stopped by deep snow on our first attempt last year.
Haeckel Hill Forestry Lookout Tower Today, Haeckel Hill is best known as the site of four wind turbines, but going back a few decades, people knew it as the site of a forest fire lookout tower that was manned during the summer.
