Downtown Whitehorse

The downtown area serves as Whitehorse's city centre and central business district.

After the war, the periphery was developed, with residents beginning to move into the Riverdale subdivision on the east bank of the river, and to suburbs outside the city limits such as Porter Creek, then to the Takhini and Hillcrest subdivisions after the military withdrew from the city in 1968.

[2] It is generally considered to extend from the narrows between the clay cliffs and the Yukon River just south of Taylor Street, north to the east–west leg of the Second Avenue extension, and from the Yukon River to the base of the clay cliffs.

Parks Canada maintains the S.S. Klondike national historic site in the southeast corner of downtown next to Second Avenue and the river; just to its north is Rotary Peace Park; together, these properties historically were squatter areas cleared in the late 1960s, known as Whiskey Flats South.

Beyond the present extent of Front Street (1st Avenue), there was a second squatter area known as Whiskey Flats North extending to the approximate location of the Wal-Mart store built in 2000; part of this was also where riverboats were moored in the winter, and where two riverboats were lost to fire in 1974.