Antler Creek

The Legandary Antler Creek was discovered by miner John Rose in 1860, who named the creek after the piles of cast off antlers from caribou herds that passed through the area seasonally. Gold was discovered on bedrock just down from a spot now known as "Saw Mill Flats", John Rose and others were reported to have had difficulties figuring out how to mine the ground, "for all we saw in every direction was gold". Antler creek would see the camp at Antlertown spring into being but it did not last long. The pay layer continued below the town, so it was burned down and not rebuilt. Mining activities on Antler creek continued off and on into the present day, with at least two active mining crews working seasonally. It is not offically known how many ounces of gold have been recovered from Antler Creek but some estimate that at least 5 million ounces were recovered over the decades.