Chilkoot Trail
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The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada. It was a major access route from the coast
1. Dyea, 2. Finnegan's Point, 3. Canyon City, 4. Pleasant Camp, 5. Sheep Camp, 6. Scales, 7. Chilkoot Pass, 8. Stone Crib, 9. Happy Camp, 10. Deep Lake, 11. Lake Lindemann, 12. Bare Loon Lake, 13. Lake Bennett
Miners climbing Chilkoot
Chilkoot Pass during gold rush, March–April 1898
Briefing at Sheep Camp
Chilkoot Pass
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Chilkoot Pass is a high mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point along the Chilkoot Trail, whi
Chilkoot Trail
…the map are highlighted with bold letters. Dyea is a ghost town located at the convergence of the Taiya River and Taiya Inlet on the south side of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska. Confidence man and crime boss Soapy Smith, famous for his underworld control of the…
Last trek over the summit, 1898
The Golden Stairs (left), Peterson Pass (right), the Scales (bottom)
Border crossing at the top of the Chilkoot Pass