Dyea is a former town in the U.S. state of Alaska. A few people live on individual small homesteads in the valley; however, it is largely abandoned. It is 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.
The Dyea waterfront during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Taiya River estuary and site of Dyea at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail (October 2005).
This one wall and section of fence is all that remains of the buildings of old Dyea today.
The graveyard containing victims of the 1898 avalanche.
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 that leads from Dyea, Alaska to Bennett Lake, British Columbia. The Chilkoot Trail was long a route used by the Tlingit for trade.
Miners and packers climbing the Chilkoot Pass, September 1898, during the Klondike Gold Rush
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