Snag is a village located on a small, dry-weather sideroad off the Alaska Highway, 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada.
It was the site of a military airfield, established as part of the Northwest Staging Route, which closed in 1968.
In 1947, the village of Snag boasted a population of eight to ten First Nation people and fur traders.
On February 2, 1947, Snag recorded a temperature of -62.2 °C (-80 °F), beating the continental North American record-low temperature that until then, belonged to Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, when it reached -61.7 °C (-79.1 °F) on December 31, 1910.
[2] On January 26, 1950, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster (tail number 42-72469) of the United States Air Force, with 34 service personnel, 2 civilians and a crew of 8, disappeared on a flight from Alaska to Montana.