Skagway's history and spectacular natural setting combine to create unparalleled sightseeing and recreation opportunities. Poke around on your own, or select from a variety of commercial tours. Either way, you will be amply rewarded with the sights and activities in and around Skagway.
In its heyday, Skagway was the boomtown gateway to the Trail of '98 and the Klondike gold fields. The population has dwindled from 20,000 feverish gold seekers to about 800 stalwart year round citizens. Streets once choked with gold-crazed stampeders clamouring to get on to the Klondike and strike it rich, are now just as busy with the thousands of tourists that visit annually.
North Peace Museum At the Museum the visitor can journey through history from native settlement, trading forts to the pioneer homesteads and the construction of the Alaska Highway in 1942. The Museum houses over 4,000 artifacts which have been carefully restored.
Take the unforgettable journey aboard the "Scenic Railway of the World" and travel 20 miles from tidewater to the summit of the White Pass, 2,865 foot elevation. Ride in vintage rail cars as they retrace the original route to the White Pass summit. This tour features panoramas of mountains, gorges, waterfalls, tunnels, trestles and historic sites. See the original Klondike Trail of '98 worn into the rocks, a permanent tribute to the thousands of souls that passed this route in seek of fortune.
There are helicopter rides away from civilization to the Chilkat Glacier system, where frozen rivers of ice surge between high mountain peaks. Experience dog sledding or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design and blow your own glass art. Whatever you want to enjoy do it with Rawhide Travel and Tours' "KICK ICE ALASKAN GLACIER ROUTE SUPER CRUISE" August 22-31, 2012. For More information call Rawhide Travel and Tours Today (602) 843-5100.
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Rawhide Travel & Tours Inc
6008 W Bell Rd # F105
Glendale, AZ 85308-3793
(602) 843-5100
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