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Tips for Walkers
Starting point: Dyea. Hikers
returning on the WP&YR Railroad
must pre-book at 983-2217.
Length: the Chilkoot Trail is
35 miles (56 km) and takes
three to five days to hike.
Getting there: 9 miles (14 km)
N of Skagway on Dyea Rd.
There are private taxis to Dyea.
Permits: needed for back-
5 Bennett Lake, British Columbia country travel; available at
In the winter of 1897, a town of over 20,000 people sprang up at the Chilkoot Trail Center,
Bennett Lake, as stampeders waited for the ice to break up. In May Broadway & 1st Ave, Skagway.
1898, in the week after the thaw, about 7,000 boats Immigration: hikers must carry
set off for the goldfields. For modern hikers, the passports and clear Customs
lake is the end of the Chilkoot Trail. at the Chilkoot Trail Center,
Bennett Lake Skagway, tel 983-9234.
∑ nps.gov/klgo

Lindeman Lake
Homan Lake
Key
Klondike Highway
Long
Lindeman Lake Chilkoot Trail
White Pass and Yukon Route
Railroad
Crater International border
Lake CANADA Peak
(BRITISH COLUMBIA)

6 Fraser, near Bernard Lake
Bernard Beside beautiful Bernard Lake in an alpine valley,
Lake
Fraser is a stop on the modern White Pass and
Yukon Route Railroad. It also serves as Canada’s
Customs and Immigration post for travelers on
Summit both the railway and the Klondike Highway.
Lake
W H I T E P A S S A N D Y U K O N R O U T E R A I L W A Y
USA
(ALASKA)
Skagway

8 Denver
At Denver, the railway line
crosses the east fork of
the Skagway River. Here, 7 White Pass
the US Forest Service About 7 miles (11 km) from Fraser, the railway crosses White Pass where,
rents out a public use during the Gold Rush, Canadian police checked the grubstakes (see p56)
cabin sited in a historic of stampeders on the White Pass Route. The modern trains, made up of
railway caboose. 1890s rolling stock, are pulled by either steam or diesel locomotives.

For keys to symbols see back flap

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