Chicken, AK, population 3

Well, that's the winter population. In the summer, when things are really cooking, there might be 25 or even more! This little town is barely inside Alaska, between Dawson City and Tok. 

One guy and his family basically own/run the whole deal. He has a nice little RV park with electric and water and a dump station which easily swallowed our 23 rigs. He has a restaurant, a nice gift shop, a gold dredge, and gold panning. What more can you ask?

This 8 foot chicken stands next to a milepost sign, too small to read, but fun. Aren't those fireweeds pretty?

This old gold dredge scooped up rocks and gravel from a riverbed, and processed the ore for gold. Sort of a mechanized gold panning method. We also got to try out the original version...

Some had better luck than others.

Legend has it that the original name of this gold rush town was supposed to be Ptarmigan, after the Alaskan state bird. But, folks couldn't agree on the correct spelling, so they decided on Chicken instead!

Hey, why not, we had fun!