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The Canadian portion of the trail was christened Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, one of several sites that comprise the Canadian national park associated with the Klondike. Klondike Gold Rush NHP and Chilkoot Trail NHS together form Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park, a designation introduced at the time of the centennial ...
Chilkoot Pass (el. 3,759 feet or 1,146 metres) 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 ...
The trail center in Skagway, operated by both the National Park Service and Parks Canada, has information regarding current conditions along the Chilkoot Trail as it travels through both countries. A permit is required to hike the 33-mile (53-kilometer) trail.
Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Dyea is now within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park . All that remains are a number of foundations surrounded by scraps of lumber and metal, three cemeteries, including one where almost every person buried died on the same date in 1898 in an avalanche on the gold ...
(The other, the Chilkoot Trail, is located west of Skagway, and is part of the National Historic Landmark Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site historic district.) Two overland routes, the 1897 trail and the Brackett Wagon Road, worked their way up White Pass, as did a water-based route along the Skagway River, and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad ...
Bennett, British Columbia, Canada, is an abandoned town next to Bennett Lake [1] and along Lindeman Creek (formerly known as the One Mile River). The townsite is now part of the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site of Canada and is managed by Parks Canada. [2]
Chilkoot Trail tramway in forest, 1898 The Chilkoot Railroad and Transport Company (CR&T) was the largest, most comprehensive, and last of the Chilkoot Trail tramways to be constructed. At first, planners toyed with a horse-drawn tramroad and even a railroad going straight up the Taiya River valley, but financial restraints tempered these plans.
Chilkoot Reservation, a U.S. Indian Reservation in Alaska, see List of Indian reservations in the United States; Chilkoot River, a river in southeast Alaska; Chilkoot Trail, a part of the Klondike Gold Rush Trail between Dyea, Alaska, USA, and Bennett Lake, British Columbia, Canada; Chilkoot tribe, a tribe of Tlingit found in Haines Township ...