Klondikers at base camp and hiking in the snow on the Chilkoot Pass Trail, Alaska, circa 1898

• Main Author: Sankowski, H.
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold miners > Alaska; Camps > Alaska; Trails & paths > Alaska; Chilkoot Trail; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; White Pass; Goldfields; Chilkoot Pass; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/4377

PH Coll 334.Sankowski1 The Chilkoot Trail is a 33 mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that lead from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States, to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada. It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890's. The trail became obsole...