Sights in Skagway
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Dyea
In 1898 Skagway's rival city, Dyea, at the foot of the Chilkoot Trail, was the trailhead for the shortest route to Lake Bennett, where stampeders began their float to Dawson City. After the White Pass & Yukon Route was completed in 1900, Dyea quickly died. Today the town is little more than a few old crumbling cabins, the pilings of Dyea Wharf and Slide Cemetery, where 47 men and women were buried after perishing in an avalanche on the Chilkoot Trail in April 1898.
The ghost town is a 9-mile drive along winding Dyea Rd, whose numerous hairpin turns are not for timid RVers. But it's very scenic drive.
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Wells Fargo Bank
The Wells Fargo Bank dates back to 1916 when a group of East Coast businessmen founded National Bank of Alaska and built the bank a year later. In 1981 the bank underwent an extensive historic renovation and today it is an interesting place to visit even if you're not short on cash yet. Two of the five brass teller gates are originals, there are spittoons in case you're chewing tobacco and on display everywhere are banking artifacts from a classic 'Cannonball' safe to the old safe deposit boxes.
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Gold Rush Cemetery
Visitors who become infatuated with Smith and Reid can walk out to Gold Rush Cemetery, a 2½-mile stroll northeast on State St. Follow State until it curves into 23rd Ave and look for the sign to Soapy's grave across the railroad tracks. A wooden bridge along the tracks leads to the main part of the cemetery, the site of many stampeders' graves and the plots of Reid and Smith. From Reid's gravestone, it's a short hike uphill to lovely Reid Falls, which cascades 300ft down the mountainside.
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Skagway Overlook
It's a very scenic drive to Dyea, especially at Skagway Overlook, a turnoff with a viewing platform 2½ miles from Skagway. The overlook offers an excellent view of Skagway, its waterfront and the peaks above the town. Just before crossing the bridge over the Taiya River, you pass the Dyea Camping Area where an NPS ranger is stationed in the summer to assist hikers on the Chilkoot Trail.
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Jewell Gardens
If the crowds are overwhelming you, cross the Skagway River to Jewell Gardens. Located where Henry Clark established the first truck farm in Alaska, the garden is a quiet spot of flowerbeds, ponds, giant vegetables and a delightful miniature train. Enjoy a cup of tea in the tearoom, soak in the color, regain your sanity. From downtown the SMART bus will drop you off at the entrance.
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Arctic Brotherhood Hall
The most outlandish building of the seven-block historical corridor along Broadway St and possibly the most photographed building in Alaska is this defunct Arctic Brotherhood Hall, now home of the Skagway Convention & Visitors Bureau. The original driftwood, 8833 pieces of it, that covers the façade were attached in 1899 and extensively renovated, piece-by-piece, in 2005.
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Skagway Museum
The Skagway Museum is one of the best in Southeast, and its gold-rush relics are some of the most interesting exhibits in a town filled with museums.
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Reid Falls
From Reid's gravestone in the Gold Rush Cemetery, it's a short hike uphill to lovely Reid Falls, which cascades 300ft down the mountainside.
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Mascot Saloon
Mascot Saloon is a museum devoted to Skagway's heyday as the 'roughest place in the world.'
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Liarsville Gold Rush Trail Camp
Offers a miner's show, a turn at gold panning and Skagway's salmon bake.
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