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.

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.

With scenic routes, comfortable seating, and a laid-back pace of travel, Amtrak is undeniably one of the best ways to explore ...

(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 ...

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 ...