Skagway

Skagway was the start for over 40,000 gold rush stampeders who headed to the Yukon by way of the Chilkoot Trail or the White Pass Trail. Skagway's population exploded to 20,000 with saloons, hotels and dance halls on every corner and became infamous for its lawlessness. Much of Skagway is within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and many of the buildings and old shop fronts have been restored so the town looks similar to the boomtown it was in the late 1890s.