Kenai Peninsula Gold Panning Tours

Get a taste of the Alaskan wilder­ness as you hunt for gold with expert gold min­ers. Those short on time can enjoy road­side gold pan­ning. Have 2 or more hours? Get into the wilder­ness to remote min­ing camps to learn how to dredge and pan for gold. Keep the gold you find! All adven­tures begin at Prospec­tor John’s base­camp store in Coop­er Land­ing, just 90 miles from Anchorage.

Res­ur­rec­tion Creek is the site of the excit­ing sec­ond dis­cov­ery of gold on the Kenai Penin­su­la in 1888. Since 1895 this creek has yield­ed an approx­i­mat­ed 30,000−40,000 ounces of gold. Itís been over 100 years since min­ing began at Res­ur­rec­tion Creek, but it is still a pop­u­lar site for recre­ation­al gold pan­ning. There is a half-mile stretch avail­able for recre­ation­al gold pan­ning that starts 4.5 miles from Hope, at the Res­ur­rec­tion Pass Trail…  ...more