page_title: Yukon River
section_title: Alaska
hierarchical_section_title: Yukon River / Tributaries / Alaska
caption_attribution_description: English: Alaska. High-altitude oblique aerial photograph looking south toward the junction of the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers. The Koyukuk River (dark color) joins the silt-laden Yukon River (light color) at the right. (Aircraft wing visible at upper right corner of image.)
context_page_description: The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The river's source is in British Columbia, Canada, from which it flows through the Canadian Yukon Territory. The lower half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is 3,190 kilometres long and empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. The average flow is 6,430 m³/s. The total drainage area is 832,700 km², of which 323,800 km² is in Canada. The total area is more than 25% larger than Texas or Alberta.
  The longest river in Alaska and Yukon, it was one of the principal means of transportation during the 1896–1903 Klondike Gold Rush. A portion of the river in Yukon—"The Thirty Mile" section, from Lake Laberge to the Teslin River—is a national heritage river and a unit of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park. Paddle-wheel riverboats continued to ply the river until the 1950s, when the Klondike Highway was completed. After the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867, the Alaska Commercial Company acquired the assets of the Russian-American Company and constructed several posts at various locations on the Yukon River.
context_section_description: Tatonduk River
  Seventymile River
  Nation River
  Kandik River
  Charley River
  Porcupine River
  (tributaries in the Yukon)
  Miner tributaries
  Fishing Branch
  Bell River
  Eagle River
  Rock River (Yukon)
  Driftwood River (Yukon)
  Old Crow River
  Bluefish River
  (tributaries in Alaska)
  Coleen River
  Black River
  Wood River
  Bear Mountain Creek
  Mountain Creek
  Chandalar Creek
  Sheenjek River
  Sheenjek River East Fork
  Koness River
  Eskimo Creek
  Christian River
  Chandalar River
  East Fork Chandalar River
  Junjik River
  Wind River
  Middle Fork Chandalar River
  North Fork Chandalar River
  West Fork Chandalar River
  Marten Creek
  Birch Creek
  Hadweenzic River
  Beaver Creek
  Hodzana River
  Dall River
  Ray River
  Big Salt River
  Hess Creek
  Garnet Creek
  Fish Creek
  Texas Creek
  Coal Creek
  Tanana River
  Nabesna River
  Chisana River
  Tetlin River
  Goodpaster River
  Delta River
  Salcha River
  Chena River
  Wood River
  Nenana River
  Tolovana River
  Kantishna River
  NC Creek
  Tozitna River
  Bluebell Creek
  Dagislakhna Creek
  Banddana Creek
  Blind River
  Bering Creek
  Nowitna River
  Sulatna River
  Big Creek
  Beaver Creek
  Glacier Creek
  Melozitna River
  Black Sand Creek
  Little Melozitna River
  Ruby Slough
  Yuki River
  East Fork Yuki River
  Kala Creek
  Kelly Creek
  Galena Creek
  Bishop Creek
  Koyukuk River
  Workyard Creek
  Gisasa River
  Kateel River
  Dulbi River
  Huslia River
  Nulitna River
  Tom Cook Slough
  Billy Hawk Creek
  Cutoff Slough
  Hogatza River
  Clear Creek
  Batza River
  Matthews Slough
  Little Indian River
  Indian River
  Calamity Creek
  Pocahontas Creek
  Kanuti River
  Discovery Creek
  Alatna River
  Siruk Creek
  South Fork Koyokouk River
  Jim River
  Jane Creek
  John River
  North Fork Koyukuk River
  Nulato River
  Khotol River
  Anvik River
  Bonasila River
  Stuyahok River
  Innoko River
  Paimiut Slough
  Reindeer River
  Iditarod River
  Yetna River
  First Chance Creek
  Mud River
  Dishna River
  Coffee Creek
  Tolstoi Creek
  Madison Creek
  Mastodon Creek
  Hurst Creek
  Taft Creek
  Finland Creek
  Scandinavian Creek
  North Fork Innoko River
  Tango Creek
  West Fork North Fork Innoko River
  Colorado Creek
  Kako Creek
  Engineer Creek
  Reindeer River
  Atchuelinguk River
  Andreafsky River
  Kashunuk River (distributary)
caption: Anabranches near the junction of the Yukon River and the Koyukuk River in Alaska, August 24, 1941
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