Skagway and Dyea: Gold Rush Boom Towns


Outfits lay stacked in Dyea as stampeders grouped their supplies. Circa 1897.
~ Detail from Hegg 58.
Dyea waterfront photo.

Skagway and Dyea, Alaska, located 600 miles south of the gold fields, were the closest salt water ports to the Klondike. They soon became "boom towns" that catered to miners. The most popular routes to the Klondike began here: from Skagway, stampeders took the White Pass and from Dyea they took the Chilkoot Pass. Click to a view a map of the White and Chilkoot Pass trails.


Skagway waterfront photo.
Skagway, Alaska. August 1897.
~ Edith Feero Larson Collection, Detail from Photo #75.


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