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 ...

For the Gold Rush “stampeders” of 1898, the goal was to travel the trails ... Klondike path went over White Pass, which is now accessible via a paved highway (and was the route of my own ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

Several scenic rail routes cut ... into Skagway's Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park to immerse yourself in the world of the stampeders before seeing their perilous trail for yourself.

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

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 ...

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 ...