Education from the elementary level to post-secondary level is available in Mayo. Kindergarten to Grade 12 is available at J. V. Clark School. Like all Yukon schools, the core curriculum (80%) follows the British Columbia Ministry of Education curriculum and students are eligible to write B.C. departmental exams. The community celebrated the opening of the new J.V. Clark School in August of 2002. The school was officially dedicated by the Prince of Wales during his visit in 2001. The facility was recognised as one of the top three "Green" buildings in Canada in the 2002 Sustainable Buildings competition in Oslo, Norway.
The Mayo Campus of Yukon College is co-located with J.V. Clark School. It has a tradition of working closely with local and territorial organizations, including the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, the Village of Mayo and local businesses. The campus offers full-time academic upgrading plus a broad range of other programs, courses, workshops and seminars, including plumbing and pipefitting, apprenticeship trades, driver training and clerical assistance courses. The campus also utilizes new distance education technologies to increase community access to courses and new forms of communication.
The Mayo Nursing Station is a community health centre with a full-time doctor and three community nurse practitioners. The doctor also serves Pelly Crossing and Carmacks. The Mayo Nursing Station holds regular clinics Monday to Friday. The centre also provides after-hours emergency service.
Policing is provided by a RCMP detachment of one corporal and two constables.
Community social services include a YTG Health and Social Services social worker and the Yukon Housing Corporation Office. Yukon Family Services provides counseling services for Mayo out of its Dawson City office.
FNNND offers social services to its members and, in certain cases, to the community. These include social services administration, a community health worker, elder's coordinator, Ethel Lake Outpost Camp and a housing department. Through additional partnerships with other governments, they are able to provide native courtworker services, homecare, alcohol and drug services, and a Human Resources Worker. The First Nation Lands Department is staffed by two GIS technicians, a resource officer, and a fisheries technician. The First Nation is central to the organization of many community activities, including the Mayo Community Wellness fair, New Year's Day Dinner, and Aboriginal Day celebrations.
The Village of Mayo provides a wide range of community and municipal services, including volunteer firefighting services. The recreation department offers recreational and leisure services that include the Mayo Winter Carnival, Canada Day Celebrations, Mayo Mountain Maniacs Triathlon, outdoor community pool, skating arena, Mayo Curling Rink, Community Fitness centre, community ballpark and batting cage, Prince of Wales Trail, and the Binet House Interpretive Centre and museum, which offers local crafts for sale. The village broadcasts five television and four radio channels and maintains a wide selection of parks and campgrounds within the community. In recent years several major projects have upgraded water and sewage main lines in the community. Recently the village organized and sponsored its 100-year-anniversary celebrations.
Ambulance services are provided by community volunteers through partnerships with the territorial government. Yukon Energy Corporation supplies electric power from the Mayo hydroelectric dam, backed up by a secondary diesel generator. In 2003 it completed a transmission line from Mayo to Dawson City. Yukon Community and Transportation Services maintains a 24-hour 365-day staffed weather station and community airport radio services at the Mayo airport.
The Yukon Territorial Agent provides services through the Yukon Liquor Corporation facilities in Mayo. These services include providing information and forms, accepting various applications, and issuing licences and permits.
The community is served by a Department of the Environment office, staffed by two conservation officers, a regional biologist and an administrative clerk. The territorial government maintains an Energy. Mines and Resources Office with two natural resource officers, and a Mining Recorder's office with a Mining Recorder and a Mining Land-Use officer.
Post office service includes mail trucked Monday to Friday. High-speed internet service is available in the community. Banking services are available four days a week.
Road access is by the Silver Trail, which connects with the North Klondike Highway near Stewart Crossing. Whitehorse is 407 km south, a five-hour drive away. Dawson City is 235 km northwest on the Klondike Highway.
The community enjoys a wide range of volunteer organizations, including the Fly-By-Night Running Club (Mayo Midnight Marathon), Mayo Ranger Patrol and Mayo Junior Ranger Patrol, Royal Canadian Legion, Mayo Agricultural Society, Mayo District Renewable Resources Council, Women's Interdenominational Group, Mayo Community Club, Mayo Carnival, Stewart Valley Voice Newspaper and Mayo Wellness Team.
Tourist services in and around Mayo include two motels, three campgrounds, two restaurants, two service stations, a store, and various businesses catering to wilderness tours and fishing. Helicopter, float-plane and taxi services are also available. The Silver Trail area, including Keno, also offers a lodge, cabins and eating facilities for tourists.
