Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park • Alaska

Visitors stand on a boardwalk outside a brick red colored wooden building with tidy golden trim.

Colorful buildings

A pale blue building with green trim sits in front of a tidy lawn with a white picket fence.

A park ranger and visitors stand in front of a small white building reading "Jeff. Smiths Parlor"

A rusted boiler sits in a mossy glade, surrounded by small pine trees

View from a mountain pass down a valley

Aerial image of two inlets in a deep fjord, with a small city and large cruise ships tucked in one

Headlines screamed "Gold!" The dream of a better life catapulted thousands of people to Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Their journey shaped them, and changed the people they encountered and the north forever. Today, the park remembers the trails, boomtowns, and stories of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Start your visit to Klondike Gold Rush NHP at the Visitor Center and Museum on 2nd Ave and Broadway
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Explore history with the restored buildings at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
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The Moore Homestead is a calm sanctuary on 5th Avenue, a block east of Skagway's busy Broadway.
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Join a ranger to tour this unique museum, full of gold rush artifacts and many decades of Skagway curiosities
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Hikers on the Chilkoot National Historic Trail can see numerous artifacts, such as this historic boiler at Canyon City, remaining from the Gold Rush days, when the corridor was bustling with stampeders
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Each summer thousands of people hike along the "worlds longest museum"
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Stampeders embarked on their Gold Rush adventures via one of two settlements -- Dyea, now mostly reclaimed by nature; and Skagway, still bustling, now with more than a million visitors each year arriving via cruise ships
NPS Photo / T. Olstad

a person on a snow patch between rocky cliffs with a rusted metal wheel in foreground

Learn about the newly designated Chilkoot National Historic Trail, plan your Chilkoot hike, or explore photo galleries and history.

Black and white photo of people standing in a line on a snowy slope.

Learn about the great human drama that was the mad dash to the far north known as the Klondike Gold Rush.

A ranger hands a badge to a boy

At Klondike Gold Rush there are two ways you can earn your Junior Ranger badge. Find out how you can start today.

Black and white photo of six men standing in front of three large halibut.

Company L, a unit of Black soldiers, spent 3 years serving their country in Southeast Alaska. Learn about their time taming the frontier.

Ladies picnic along a river

Courageous women from all walks of life joined the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98.

Black and white photo of people and horses on a log bridge.

Discover the people, places, and stories of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Last updated: May 11, 2026

Contact Info

Mailing Address:

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
P.O. Box 517
Skagway, AK 99840

Phone:

907 983-9200

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