This is where the Chilkoot Trail begins in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. What was once a trading route for the Tlingit people became a highway for miners in the late 1800s.

I could take a gutsy 33-mile hike through the Coast Range, or hop on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, one of the nation’s most scenic rail ... gold rush in American history, the Klondike ...

Several scenic rail routes cut ... into Skagway's Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park to immerse yourself in the ...

A collection of photographs of the people and landscapes along a rough trail into Alaska's interior, taken nearly 125 years ago.

The programs are offered on 11 Amtrak routes through US national ... Hosted by Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Seattle, the Trails and Rails program on Coast Starlight runs between ...

Nothing in northern history is as heavily romanticized as the Klondike Gold Rush. The era ... chose the White Pass route rather than the more heavily used Chilkoot Trail. They were hauling much ...

And at 291 Broadway, the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical ... from Skagway or the Chilkoot Trail from Dyea. Pulling power: the White Pass &ampamp; Yukon Route Railroad arrived too late ...

(top: Wikimedia Commons; bottom: Candy Waugaman Collection Klondike Gold Rush National ... fields. The route of choice for many "stampeders" was the 33-mile-long Chilkoot Trail that began at ...

A partnership between the National Park Service and Amtrak has placed volunteer interpretive guides on some routes ... with two Trails & Rails volunteers at the Klondike Gold Rush National Park ...

On July 14 of 1897, when news of the Klondike Gold ... route was to pack in from the Gulf of Alaska over the Valdez Glacier. The most popular route began in Dyea at the northern limit of the Inside ...

He's always wondered if he could follow in the footsteps of his forebears and take on the legendary Klondike Gold Rush trail. Wonder no more. In honour of his family - especially his beloved ...