White Pass, also known as the Dead Horse Trail, is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the border of the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia, Canada. It leads from Skagway, Alaska, to the chain of lakes at the headwaters of the Yukon River.
White Pass
White Pass trail in 1899
White Pass summit seen from train, 2002
Photograph of the W.P. & Y.R. near White Pass by Eric A. Hegg ca. 1899
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