The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with more than 1,000,000 visitors each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area. The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.
Aerial view of Skagway in 2009
Skagway wharves and harbor ca. 1898 photo by Eric A. Hegg
Gold Rush-era advertisements made on one of the mountains forming the eastern wall of the valley
Gold Rush Cemetery
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The majority of southeast Alaska is situated in Tlingit Aaní, much of which is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national forest. In many places, the international border runs along the crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The region is noted for its scenery and mild, rainy climate.
A MODIS photograph of Southeast Alaska, February 2002. Border lines with Yukon and British Columbia have been artificially added.
The City and Borough of Juneau, the most populous borough in southeast Alaska.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, the second most populous borough in southeast Alaska.
The Tongass National Forest, near Ketchikan