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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

More treasure from the Klondike Gold ... along the way. His gold rush experience was about his journey from 1898 to 1910. Much of that journey was on the trails of the lower Tanana Valley and ...

(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 ...

The entire Alaska portion of Chilkoot National Historic Trail will be open this summer for the first time in five years.

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 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 ...