Bonnet Plume River, Yukon
The River of Black Sands
Designated 1998

The Bonnet Plume River rushes through range after range of mountains, cutting across rockslides, sluicing through canyons and sliding for miles through braided gravel flats. Long known as big game hunting country, Dall's sheep, grizzly bear, moose and caribou graze on the alpine meadows and valley bottomlands The river is named in honour of a Gwich'in chief, Alfred Bonnet Plume, who worked with French-Canadian Voyageurs of the Hudson's Bay Company.