Skagway is a former gold mining town in Alaska (USA) and since 25 June 2007, a self Borough. It was founded in 1897 by steamboat captain William Moore.
Skagway is on Taiya Inlet, a bay of the Lynn canal, and is the terminus of Alaska's Inside Passage and the White Pass and Yukon Railway from White Pass to Whitehorse. Skagway Haines is next to the only reachable by land site of the Alaska Panhandle and was to its independence, the largest city of Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Areas.
Skagway was the gold rush in the great Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, an important base and starting point for the route over Chilkoot and White Pass Today the town has about 850 inhabitants. In the place of the legend Soapy Smith is still alive.
Skagway is the northernmost end point for cruises undertaken by ship through the fjords of the Alaska Panhandle. The port is also served by the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway.
Skagway is on Taiya Inlet, a bay of the Lynn canal, and is the terminus of Alaska's Inside Passage and the White Pass and Yukon Railway from White Pass to Whitehorse. Skagway Haines is next to the only reachable by land site of the Alaska Panhandle and was to its independence, the largest city of Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Areas.
Skagway was the gold rush in the great Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, an important base and starting point for the route over Chilkoot and White Pass Today the town has about 850 inhabitants. In the place of the legend Soapy Smith is still alive.
Skagway is the northernmost end point for cruises undertaken by ship through the fjords of the Alaska Panhandle. The port is also served by the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway.
