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The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, [3] up from 968 in 2010. [4] The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with the large number of summer tourists each year. [5] Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007 ...
Designated CP. June 30, 1976. The Skagway Historic District and White Pass is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing a significant portion of the area within the United States associated with the Klondike Gold Rush. It includes the historic portion of Skagway, Alaska, including the entire road grid of the 1897 town, as well as the ...
Store at the service station in Stewart Crossing. The Klondike Highway is a highway that runs from the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada, linking the coastal town of Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon. Its route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a national historical park operated by the National Park Service that seeks to commemorate the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Though the gold fields that were the ultimate goal of the stampeders lay in the Yukon Territory, the park comprises staging areas for the trek there and the routes ...
Lynn Canal. Coordinates: 58°41′31″N 135°05′51″W. Lynn Canal, Haines area of southeast Alaska. Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska. Lynn Canal runs about 90 miles (140 km) from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage. At over 2,000 feet (610 m) in ...
The Lynn Canal route of the ferry system (Juneau-Haines-Skagway) is the only profitable route in the entire system [citation needed] and often receives a large amount of ferry traffic, especially in the summer. The Haines Airport receives a large amount of traffic, with one air carrier (Alaska Seaplanes) providing services to Skagway and Juneau ...
Union of Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site and Skagway Historic District and White Pass. 59°34′31″N 135°15′49″W / 59.57537°N 135.26367°W / 59.57537; -135.26367 (Klondike Goldrush National Historical Park) Skagway. 3. Skagway Historic District and White Pass. Skagway Historic District and White Pass. October 15, 1966.
USGS Skagway B-2. Mount Harding is a prominent 5,321 ft (1,620 m) mountain summit located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated 4.5 mi (7 km) southwest of Skagway, and 3 mi (5 km) south of Face Mountain, on land managed by Tongass National Forest. Although modest in elevation, relief is ...