Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site
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Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site
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Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
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Miners climbing Chilkoot
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| Nearest city | Skagway, Alaska |
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| Coordinates | 59°35′14″N 135°19′56″W / 59.58719°N 135.33234°WCoordinates: 59°35′14″N 135°19′56″W / 59.58719°N 135.33234°W |
| Area | 11,882 acres (4,808 ha) |
| Built | 1897 |
| Part of | Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (#76002189) |
| NRHP Reference # | 75002120 |
| AHRS # | SKG-006; SKG-067 |
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| Added to NRHP | April 14, 1975 |
| Designated NHLD | June 16, 1978 |
| Designated CP | June 30, 1976 |
| Designated AHRS | June 30, 1974 December 14, 1974 |
The Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site is a National Historic Landmark district comprising the Chilkoot Trail and the former town of Dyea, Alaska. They are contained in the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park which preserves the historic buildings and locations connected to the Klondike Gold Rush period of Alaskan history. For a brief period between 1897 and 1899, this trail and town were full of prospectors. By 1905, most of the buildings had been demolished or removed. Both the trail and the town site are part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
Dyea is a ghost town located at the convergence of the Taiya River and Taiya Inlet on the south side of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska. During the Klondike Gold Rush prospectors disembarked at its port and used the Chilkoot Trail, a Tlingit trade route over the Coast Mountains, to begin their journey to the gold fields around Dawson City, Yukon, about 800 km (500 mi) away. Confidence man and crime boss Soapy Smith, famous for his underworld control of the neighboring town of Skagway in 1897-98 is believed to have had control of Dyea as well.
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