Uranium City Road Trip 2025 by Gabriel Isadore

On March, 2025, Gabriel Isadore and his father drove over the ice road from Fond Du Lac for a visit to Uranium City and shot this footage along the way. They crossed from Lake Athabasca via Goldfields, crossed the Beaverlodge ice road to Eldorado where they caught the highway to Uranium City. The video shot using a combination of GoPro and drone video. He captures well the eeriness of the abandoned town, so much of which is overgrown now.

Prince Phillip Visits Uranium City, 1959

Prince Phillip visited Uranium City in 1959. Queen Elizabeth was supposed to attend but she claimed illness. The Royals had been on a 15,000 mile tour of Canada. It was during this tour that the Queen discovered she was pregnant with the future Prince Andrew. A few months after the Royal visit, every mine in the region except for Eldorado and Gunnar would shut down and Uranium City would suffer its first major setback, the population plunging to 1000: