: NOTE: Demographic data below is for the former " Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon " Census Area, which still includes Skagway Borough.

Skagway () is a first-class borough in Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle.

The port of Skagway is a popular stop for cruise ships, and the tourist trade is a big part of the business of Skagway.

Skagway is also part of the setting for Jack London's book The Call of the Wild.

Skagway ( originally spelled Skaguay ) is from the Tlingit name for the area, " Skagua " or " Shԍagwei " meaning " a windy place with white caps on the water.

The Skagway area today is home to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and White Pass and Chilkoot Trails.

Skagway is located at ( 59. 468519, − 135. 305962 ).

Skagway is located in a narrow glaciated valley at the head of the Taiya Inlet, the north end of the Lynn Canal, which is the most northern fjord on the Inside Passage on the south coast of Alaska.

Skagway has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb / Dsb ) which is very unusual for a place so far north.

Skagway is one of three Southeast Alaskan communities that is connected to the road system ; Skagway's connection is via the Klondike Highway, completed in 1978.

Skagway is served by its local semimonthly newspaper, the Skagway News, as well as regional public radio station KHNS, which has its principal studios in nearby Haines but also has studios and programs based in Skagway.

Skagway is featured in the 1955 Western The Far Country, directed by Anthony Mann.

( The Kanagu rock is likely to be Face Mountain, which overlooks Skagway bay.

Today, Pioneer Square is home to art galleries, internet companies, cafés, sports bars, nightclubs, bookstores, and a unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, the other unit of which is located in Skagway, Alaska.

Nanaimo is probably the northernmost location of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ) in the world, and is slightly shielded from the Aleutian Low ’ s influence by the mountains of central Vancouver Island, so that summers are unusually dry for its latitude and location — though summer drying as a trend is found in the immediate lee of the coastal ranges as far north as Skagway, Alaska.

* In March 1898, the " 101 " of Skagway, Alaska posted handbills and held meetings trying to free the town of a bunco gang known as the " Soap Gang " under the control of the infamous Soapy Smith.

Between 1897-1898, Skagway was a lawless town, described by one member of the North-West Mounted Police as " little better than a hell on earth.

Much of the history of Skagway was saved by early residents, such as Martin Itjen, who ran a tour bus around the historical town.

Juneau radio station KINY operates a translator in Skagway which serves the entire town.

When Klondike, set in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway, was cancelled, Taeger and Coburn were regrouped as detectives in Mexico in NBC's equally short-lived Acapulco.

The U. S. portion was eventually established in 1976 as Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, comprising part of Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington, various sites throughout Skagway, Alaska, the abandoned town site of Dyea, Alaska, and the U. S. portion of the Chilkoot Trail.

The trail begins in Dyea, a ghost town and campground, 15 minutes from Skagway.

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.

The character of Gannon may be loosely based on that of Soapy Smith, a confidence artist and gang leader who ran the town of Skagway during the Alaska Gold Rush.

In an episode of Homeland Security USA, the border crossing in Skagway was featured as being the least-used crossing in the United States.

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

Broadway Avenue, in the summer during the tourist seasonThe prospectors ' journey began for many when they climbed the mountains over the White Pass above Skagway and onward across the Canadian border to Bennett Lake, or one of its neighboring lakes, where they built barges and floated down the Yukon River to the gold fields around Dawson City.

It was not until May 1898 that the White Pass and Yukon Route began laying narrow gauge railroad tracks in Skagway.

The White Pass and Yukon Route still operates its narrow-gauge train around Skagway during the summer months, primarily for tourists.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

Yukon Highway 1 cuts southeast toward Marsh Lake, Yukon while Yukon Highway 2 cuts south to Skagway, Alaska.

The White Pass and Yukon Route ( WP & Y, WP & YR ) is a Canadian and U. S. Class II narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon.

In 1897, three separate companies were organized to build a rail link from Skagway to Fort Selkirk, Yukon, away.

Miners had their choice of two passes across the mountains to the Yukon fields: The Chilkoot Trail, an old Native route, started in Dyea, and the White Pass, also called Dead Horse Trail, was in Skagway.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

The other primary route to the headwaters of the Yukon River, however, was also based out of Skagway: the rival White Pass route.

The narrow-gauge White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad connects Bennett, British Columbia at the south end of the lake with Skagway further south and Whitehorse, Yukon on the north.

It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

Dyea was abandoned when the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad chose the White Pass Trail ( instead of the alternative Chilkoot Trail ), which began at Skagway, for its route.

After the gold rush and the creation of the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad ore and other freight from the Yukon Territory was transported on the railroad to Skagway and its deepwater port and then shipped through Lynn Canal.

In 1900, the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway was completed to neighboring Skagway.