The Chief Zzeh Gittlit School is a beautiful new building with gymnasium, shops, and a modern computer lab. It offers kindergarten to Grade 9. Students walk there or take the bus. Most students still move to Whitehorse to complete high school; sometimes their families accompany them, alternatively they live in dorms or board with relatives or friends. Eventually higher grades may be available in the community. Gwich'in language and Gwich'in life have been incorporated into the local curriculum, which otherwise follows the B.C. curriculum. The school is an integral part of community life. The new gymnasium is used almost every night for various activities. In addition, the students spend time on the land and at the school's wilderness cabin during the school year.
The Old Crow campus of Yukon College, - renamed the Alice Frost Community Campus, opened its doors in 1987. Alice Frost was instrumental in bringing about the new building that houses the college. The campus, in partnership with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, offers training to meet the needs of the youth and adult population in the community. College programs have included wilderness tourism, carpentry apprenticeship, computers, accounting, adult education in science, mathematics, and English, small engine repair, driver training (class 3-7), and arctic plumbing, as well as culture-based classes, such as traditional sewing and toboggan-making, taught by community members.
Old Crow has a community health centre, which is staffed by two community nurses and is open weekdays. A doctor is available around the middle of each month. Emergency services are available at any time.
YTG Health and Social Services has a social worker providing services in the community.
The RCMP operates a detachment in Old Crow with one corporal and two constables. Old Crow is also served by a probation officer who visits monthly from Whitehorse and by circuit court.
The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Health and Social Programs Department provides community social development services, including in-home adult care, supportive counseling and referral, and native courtworker services.
The Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd supplies power via a diesel generating plant.
VGFN and YTG maintain the local roads, water and sewer, and fire protection.
Mail is flown in and out on weekdays and is available for pick-up between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Northern Store. Other goods are brought in by air freight.
High-speed access to the Internet is available in the community and the nursing station has video-conference facilities.
Banking is done through the TD Canada Trust and is located in the Northern Store.
St. Luke's Anglican Church services are led by lay readers at 11 a.m. on Sundays. The picturesque log church, which sits by the riverbank, has notable stained glass windows and extensive beadwork.
Access to Old Crow is by air, with a gravel airstrip. There is regularly scheduled service six days a week from Whitehorse, excluding Saturday. Occasionally, winter roads are built to upgrade community services; for example, to bring in a new water truck and new sewer truck. Some people bring in their own vehicles. Scrap metals were also removed from the community dump and taken for recycling.
The Northern Store sells groceries and some dry goods, and the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation runs a gasoline outlet. Other services include Ch'oo Deenjik Accommodations, Porcupine B&B, Frostie's Java (a small business run by four teenaged girls), a fitness centre and a cross-country ski lodge. Order-in food services are available from Whitehorse through Super A Foods.
In the summer, people travel on foot, bicycles or ATVs; in the winter they travel on foot or snowmobiles. A few private vehicles operate on the small network of dirt roads. To travel beyond the community, people use boats in the summer and snowmobiles or dog teams in the winter.
