Klondike Goldrush National Historic District walking tour

We completed the Lower Dewey Lake trail in just enough time to return to the visitors center to begin the hour long walking tour. Our guide was Anya, a national park service summer employee, and she was really fantastic. She made history come alive and she talked about characters and locations important during the (only) two year Klondike gold rush during 1897 and 1898. Those were some truly hardy souls back then!!

We ended up an hour later at the Moore Homestead, and by that time I was getting pretty tired. We began to make our way back along the waterfront to the ship, and it was all I could do to climb that steep gangway back up to the Promenade Deck 7 of the Island Princess. We returned to the ship about 5pm. I was in hour 13 of the day, with a busy evening planned.

Cruising can be hard work!!

Photos 1 and 2: the Mascot bar has been restored as a museum by the Klondike Goldrush National Historic District

Photos 3-5: the renovated Moore homestead. The Moores cleared the White Pass trail from Skagway to Lake Bennett, en route to the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City

Photo 6: the original homestead