Skagway Alaska

History, beauty and adventure meet in Skagway, Alaska's first incorporated city and the Gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.  Nestled at the northernmost reaches of the Inside Passage, the streets are lined with wooden boardwalks and restored buildings, looking much as they did 100 years ago.

Sea Level

Average temperature in summertime...57 degrees

Average temperature in wintertime  23 degrees

Helicopter tours

located on the north end of Taiya Inlet on Lynn Canal

$319 per person per trip

flightseeing

Mountain Ash trees are beautiful

Rotary Snowplow #1

Space for 4 Cruise Ships

Small boat harbor

Smaller Cruise Ships

Narrated tours of Skagway

Owner of the antique store

Arctic Brotherhood Hall facade has more than 8,833 pieces

of driftwood sticks arranged in a mosaic pattern

1900s bar....

Town is VERY busy........ cruise ships are in town

Cruise ships from May to the end of September

average annual precipitation 26.16 inches

 Where are the Cruise Ships...where are the people

 Mickey Mouse is in town.....fog is in town

 Gold Rush Cemetery

 Captain checking for the "good guys" and "bad guys"

 Soapy Smith...one of the "bad guys"

This is where the people are....on tour buses out of the rain

 McCabe College Building is the first granite building constructed in Alaska

Today it houses the Skagway Museum and City Hall

 Parking is free in Skagway

 Haven't seen a McDonalds

Haven't seen a filling station

 The longest running show in the North

Captain with the star of the show....Soapy Smith

 lively 1-hour musical/drama based on

con man Soapy Smith's reign over Skagway

 Dyea Road

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899, Dyea housed thousands of people, many if not most bound for the Klondike gold fields via Chilkoot Pass.

 Eagle spotted

 Taiya Inlet with a few "sheep" today

 hardly a trace remains of the buildings that housed up to

8,000 people and 150 businesses

Time, weather and the shifting Taiya River have

obliterated most of Dyea today

 one lane bridges

 Skagway River

 narrow gravel road

 no large buses.....but many small tour buses

 debating if the tide is going in or out

 nice drive

 View of downtown Skagway

 Steam engine made the run today

 coming back into the station

 Stop at Red Onion Saloon

 Join the Madam on a "Quickie" tour

Or have a beer and pizza

We have had a wonderful time in Skagway......will leave tomorrow....and hopefully the clouds will not be setting on top of White Pass

Headed South!!!!!!