Education from kindergarten to Grade 10 is available at Ross River School. Students can complete Grade 12 in Watson Lake, Faro, or Whitehorse.
Post-secondary education is provided through the Ross River Community Campus of Yukon College. Ross River Elders named the campus Dena Cho Kanadi or "big people learning" in 1996. The College Campus offers academic upgrading, youth employment training programs, introduction to trades courses, business and office administration, and traditional cultural skills. A fully-equipped computer lab is connected to the internet and offers distance education opportunities.
Health care is provided through the community health centre, daily from Monday to Friday. A treatment clinic is held in the morning, and community health programs in the afternoons. The health centre also provides 24-hour emergency service.
The Ross River Dena Council offers social services to its members, including counseling, social assistance, adult care, and recreation services. The First Nation also has a Community Education Liaison Coordinator and provides native courtworker services.
Health and Social Services provides a resident social worker in Ross River.
The RCMP detachment is three strong, one corporal and two constables, one of whom must be a First Nations person. Justice of the Peace, native courtworkers, and probation officer services are provided locally.
The Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd. supplies hydroelectric power from the Whitehorse dam, backed up by three diesel-generating units. Water is trucked three times a week from a filtration well to all houses, and sanitation is by septic tanks, subsurface tile fields and outhouses.
Fire service is provided by a volunteer force, with pumper, hoses, and breathing equipment. There is also a volunteer ambulance crew and a volunteer search-and-rescue group. Other volunteer groups active in Ross River include a Youth Justice Committee, school and campus councils, and an inter-agency resource team.
Mail is trucked in and out of Ross River postal outlet three times a week. Local dial-up Internet access is available in the community.
Banking facilities are available for three and a half hours a day, four days a week. They are located at the Ross River Dena Council Office.
There is a community library at Ross River.
St. Michael's Roman Catholic church is located in the community.
The Campbell Highway, the main road connection for Ross River, is an unpaved, all-weather road that runs from Carmacks to Watson Lake. From Ross River, the trip to Whitehorse is 477 km or about a five-hour drive. Watson Lake is 373 km away from Ross River in the opposite direction. Ross River is also accessible seasonally by way of the South Canol Road, which joins the Alaska Highway at Johnson's Crossing.
There are two retail outlets in Ross River. The Ross River Service Centre carries groceries, hardware, fishing and hunting supplies. The Ross River Dena Store carries groceries.
A variety of small businesses provide services ranging from construction to accounting to outfitting for hunters. In addition, business services for mining exploration include line-cutting and equipment rental.
