How To Get To Skagway

Skagway is a town with a population of less than a m in Southeastern Alaska. Information technology is the northern terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway System. It sprang up during the Klondike Gilt Rush of 1896-1899, and at present subsists almost entirely on tourism. The historical interest and natural beauty of the area brand information technology a worthwhile place to visit.

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Skagway

Climate chart (explanation)

J	F	M	A	G	J	J	A	Due south	O	N	D
2.four xxx 21	1.four 34 24	ii.i 39 28	ane.ii 49 34	0.9 57 42	ane.2 62 48	1.1 64 51	2.1 63 fifty	four.iii 56 45	4.ane 48 38	2.8 37 29	iii.four 33 25
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Encounter Skagway's 7 mean solar day forecast Information from NOAA (1981-2010)

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J	F	Yard	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
61 −1 −6	36 1 −4	53 4 −two	30 nine 1	23 fourteen vi	xxx 17 9	28 18 11	53 17 10	109 xiii 7	104 9 3	71 iii −two	86 one −4
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Visitor information [edit]

59.45398 -135.318426 one Skagway Visitor Center, 205 Broadway, ☏ +i 907 983-2854 , skagwayinfo@skagway.org. ( updated Nov 2021 )

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By boat [edit]

See also: Alaska Marine Highway

59.44964 -135.32389 1 Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) (Alaska Ferry), toll-gratuitous: +one-800-642-0066 . Connects Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Kake, Sitka, Juneau, Haines, and Skagway in the southeast panhandle of Alaska. Some trips operate to Bellingham, Washington or Prince Rupert, British Columbia. ( updated December 2018 )

The well-nigh common way to become to Skagway is by gunkhole, whether cruise transport or Alaska Marine Highway ferry.

Past car [edit]

The just road access to the remainder of the continent is on Highway 98, which travels to Whitehorse, Yukon via Carcross, Yukon. The highway is named Highway 2 (Southward Klondike Highway) in Canada inside British Columbia and Yukon.

By train [edit]

59.453625 -135.319488 two White Pass and Yukon Route, 2nd Av, toll-free: +1-800-343-7373 , info@wpyr.com. Operates from Skagway, and stops in Northern British Columbia on its style to Carcross, Yukon. Service operates from May to early on October. Railroad was built to transport miners from Skagway to the gold. It was in service until the early on 1980s, servicing the Yukon's Mining Industry. Today, a portion of the railroad is restored and even so in operation. An out-and-back day trip offers corking views as the train snakes along the sides of mountains overlooking the river far beneath; although it goes into Canada, passports aren't required because you lot don't become off the train. The restored/replica passenger cars feature reversible seats and then that passengers confront forward both outbound and when the train reverses course to return to Skagway. International trips to Fraser and Bennett Lake, British Columbia are also available. The railroad besides offers a transport service for hikers traveling to our returning from Bennett Lake, which is the Canadian trailhead of the Chilkoot Trail, which travels between Alaska and British Columbia. ( updated Sep 2022 )

By plane [edit]

Skagway is accessible by commuter flying from Juneau

Become effectually [edit]

The city is only a few blocks wide and a couple dozen blocks long, on level footing; walking works just fine. S.M.A.R.T. City Transit provides small buses around town and to and from the cruise send docks. Bus fare for the short route that travels from the cruise ship docks to Broadway and 8th Street costs $2 per trip or $five for an all-day pass. Buses run from May 1 - October 1, 7AM-9PM, 7 days a calendar week. The fare for the bus route that goes from Broadway and 8th street forth State Street to Jewel Gardens and Klondike Gold Fields is $5.

Encounter [edit]

Starting time by stepping away from any buildings and turning 360 degrees for an impressive view of the nearby peaks that enclose Skagway.

59.453276 -135.319218 1 Klondike Gilt Rush National Historical Park Visitors Center (former Railway Broadway Depot), 271 Broadway, ☏ +i 907 983-9200 . Congenital as the railway's depot, completed in December 1898, after a long history this building was transferred to National Park Service in 1976, with restoration completed in 1984, returning its advent to the 1908-1915 time period. It now serves as the KGRNHP'southward Visitors Center and Headquarters. The National Park itself includes much of the celebrated downtown: the railway Administration Building, Soapy Smith's Parlor, Mascot Saloon and several other buildings, owned and restored past NPS and others, some leased even today for ordinary commercial purposes, to recreate the city's bustling action. Gratuitous. ( updated Oct 2018 )
59.453066 -135.321259 ii Skagway Centennial Statue, 271 Broadway (in front of the Visitors Center). Remembers the miners coming to Skagway in the Aureate Rush. ( updated Oct 2018 )
59.456135 -135.320077 3 Skagway Museum and Archives (Seventh and Leap Streets), ☏ +i 907-983-2420 . Photos and artifacts from Erstwhile Skaguay including a Tlingit canoe, a Portland Cutter sleigh and Bering Sea kayaks as well as Gold Blitz era tools, baskets, beadwork and carvings. Also gold rush genealogy research. $2.
59.453676 -135.327637 4 Footbridge to Yakutania Betoken & Smuggler's Cove (due south of airport terminal off Starting time Ave). Trails, exercise course, picnic spots.
59.456106 -135.311869 5 Skagway Sculpture Garden (8th and Spring Streets).
59.465208 -135.33062 6 Skagway Overlook, Mile 2 on Dyea Rd. Turnoff and platform.
59.467296 -135.30751 vii Jewell Gardens (on the highway just beyond the river), ☏ +1 907-983-2111 . Unique flowers and vegetables, including some giants.
59.473833 -135.291263 viii Gold Rush Cemetery, Alaska St. Old cemetery which includes the grave of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith and "The Largest Asset in the Globe" which is really simply a behemothic bedrock painted gold. Trolley tours offered to the cemetery, but if y'all wish to walk from downtown it volition take about 20 minutes.

Exercise [edit]

59.455582 -135.317236 one Klondike Electric Bicycles, 398 5th Ave (Corner of 5th and State St.), ☏ +1 907 983-2453 . Offers electric bicycle rentals and tours as well as electric car daily rentals.
59.453966 -135.326002 two Mountain Flying Service (Glacier Bay Flightseeing), 132 2nd Ave (at the airport), ☏ +ane 907 766-3007 . Mount Flying Service does charter flights and flightseeing out of Skagway and Haines primarily. They take a spectacular plane with very big windows for flightseeing. Paul the pilot has been flight tours in the expanse longer than anyone else.
59.454273 -135.31783 3 Skagway Float Tours, 299 Broadway St, ☏ +1 907 983-3688 , cost-costless: +1 877-983-2512 , skagwayfloat@gmail.com. Outdoor adventure while hiking forth the Chilkoot Trail followed past a float downwards the glacial fed Taiya River. $75-100. ( updated April 2020 )

Buy [edit]

At that place is no shortage of shops along Skagway'south main street (actually Broadway Street, ane block from Main), offering an array of standard tourist souvenirs, native/local crafts and imported imitations, jewelry, and other goods. Here are a few:

59.454119 -135.322204 1 Granny'southward Gallery, 272 State St, ☏ +ane 907-983-2775 . Antique native carvings, art and jewelry.
59.455147 -135.318518 2 ^{[expressionless link]} Precious Kollections Gallery (Northwest Supernatural Art), 4th and Broadway, ☏ +1 425 306-8297 . 10AM-7PM. Special showing of Alaskan Multimedia Artist, Tresham Gregg, working in woodcarvings, silk screen prints, tribal jewelry, puppets, paintings, and more. Plus exotic silver and rock jewelry.

Eat [edit]

A few restaurants and bars along the main street offering a variety of brews and cooking provide a pleasant alternative to - or break from - shopping and excursions.

59.464821 -135.302444 1 Yous Say Lycopersicon esculentum, Land St (at 21st Ave), ☏ +1 907 983-2784 . Natural whole foods, fresh staff of life and produce, provisions for hikers.
59.454948 -135.324212 2 Skagway Fish Co., Congress Way (in the scarlet building), ☏ +ane 907 983 . FISH. Halibut fish and chips, Alaskan rex crab.
59.449559 -135.317796 3 The Stowaway Buffet, 205 Congress Way (in the aqua building), ☏ +1 907 983 . DINE. More upscale and overlooking the pocket-size boat harbor.

Drinkable [edit]

59.453923 -135.3207 ane Red Onion Saloon (2nd and Broadway). Has that Gold Rush era feel. "Meet the Ladies of '98".

Sleep [edit]

Hotels [edit]

59.456593 -135.320421 1 Sgt. Preston'south Gild (sixth and State), ☏ +1 907 983-2521 . 40 rooms.

Hostels [edit]

^{[formerly expressionless link]} Skagway Home Hostel, 3rd and Primary St, ☏ +1 907 983-2131 . Check-in: 5:30PM-10:30PM . Kitchen facilities, outdoor barbecue, free internet. Guests are assigned one chore. Aforementioned-sex dorms (sleeps 3 each) inside the main house; co-ed dorm in a bunkhouse in back (sleeps eight). For people with pet allergies, note that in that location a true cat and a dog living in the hostel. $xv co-ed dorm, $20 aforementioned-sex dorm.

Bed and Breakfast [edit]

59.458181 -135.315985 2 At The White House, 8th and Master St, ☏ +one 907 983-9000 .

RV Parks [edit]

59.453034 -135.322826 3 ^{[formerly dead link]} Pullen Creek RV Park, toll-complimentary: +1-800-936-3731 .

Connect [edit]

As of 2013, cellular users in Skagway and Haines have reported substantial network delays due to the load placed on existing infrastructure when passengers from multiple arriving cruise ships access the arrangement simultaneously. An upgrade to 4G is planned but not however implemented.

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