A decade of high-risk gold hunting with the Dakota Boys is the focus of Gold Rush: White Water’s special, Golden Road, airing Friday, July 4, 2025, at 8 PM ET on Discovery. This episode looks back at Fred and Dustin Hurt’s unrelenting pursuit of gold, from their earliest strikes to record-setting finds.
The Dakota Boys, as they are known, have never lost their drive to unearth life-altering gold. This special episode goes over their journey, recalling how their strategies changed over time. It reviews their first discoveries and their biggest gold finds, tracing how their approach to mining developed.
For fans of the Gold Rush franchise, this is a great chance to see how persistence and adapting methods play out in the high-stakes world of gold extraction.
