Alaska's Yukon Wilderness Arc is formed by the bend in the Yukon River at Fort Yukon. It has a quasi baseline running from Healy with the Denali National Park and Preserve on the southwest end, up the George Parks Highway through Nenana and Ester with nearby Gold Hill to Fairbanks. The baseline continues up the
Steese Highway through Fox and past the Chatanika Lodge to Central and Circle City with the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on the northeast end.
Our "center" or base point is Gold Hill between Fairbanks and Ester on the George Parks Highway.
Gold Hill, named after the Gold Hill Mine, is not the geometrical center of the arc. But with Gold Hill Alaska--a one-stop-shop for specialty Alaskan wines, beers, meads and unique gifts--on one side of the highway and the Blue Loon--a theatre club--on the other, it is an ideal location for "reconnoitering the territory."
-Steese Review
Nugget Gulch is located at Mile 7.9 on the Circle Hot Springs Road off the Steese Highway at Central, and a relatively short distance from the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve. It is across the road from the Circle Hot Springs airstrip that can handle fairly large aircraft.
