Archaeological evidence, oral-history interviews, and archival sources attest to the long-standing importance of this place as an ancient fishing and hunting camp and gathering place that was in use approximately 500 to 200 years before present .Tr’ochëk was overrun by newcomers during the Klondike Gold Rush and First Nations people were displaced from this place in the autumn of 1896. The area was renamed Klondike by the new comers and was occupied for over two decades. Today, there is evidence of the remains of miners’ cabins, hotels, a brewery, the terminus of the Klondike Mines Railway (KMR), a sawmill and farming operations.

Tr’ochëk illustrates the dramatic changes Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in experienced, their displacement from their fishing and hunting camps at Tr’ochëk, the loss of their salmon fishing grounds, and the changes in their seasonal movement to this place caused by the inundation of the newcomers from the Klondike Gold Rush. For several seasons in the late 1990s and early 2000s, archaeologists worked with Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in youth to locate the homes of their ancestors and the evidence of their activities at this place. Facilities on the site include a small log cabin and composting toilets for visitor use and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in programming.Self-guided access to Tr’ochëkis currently available overland by existing trails. Formal interpretation is available during the summer months via organized events and programming from the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre.