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Visitors stand on a boardwalk outside a brick red colored wooden building with tidy golden trim.

Start your visit to Klondike Gold Rush NHP at the Visitor Center and Museum on 2nd Ave and Broadway

Explore history with the restored buildings at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

A pale blue building with green trim sits in front of a tidy lawn with a white picket fence.

The Moore Homestead is a calm sanctuary on 5th Avenue, a block east of Skagway's busy Broadway.

A park ranger and visitors stand in front of a small white building reading "Jeff. Smiths Parlor"

Join a ranger to tour this unique museum, full of gold rush artifacts and many decades of Skagway curiosities

A rusted boiler sits in a mossy glade, surrounded by small pine trees

Hikers on the Chilkoot National Historic Trail can see numerous artifacts, such as this historic boiler at Canyon City, remaining from the Gold Rush days, when the corridor was bustling with stampeders

Each summer thousands of people hike along the "worlds longest museum"

Aerial image of two inlets in a deep fjord, with a small city and large cruise ships tucked in one

Stampeders embarked on their Gold Rush adventures via one of two settlements -- Dyea, now mostly reclaimed by nature; and Skagway, still bustling, now with more than a million visitors each year arriving via cruise ships

Physical Address:

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

291 Broadway

Skagway, AK 99840

Mailing Address:

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

P.O. Box 517

Skagway, AK 99840

contact-details

Phone Number: 9079839200 Voice
Phone Number: 9079839249 Fax

Email Address: klgo_information@nps.gov
Description:

Fees

Entrance Fees

Entrance Passes

Headlines screamed "Gold!" The dream of a better life catapulted thousands of people to Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Their journey shaped them, and changed the people they encountered and the north forever. Today, the park remembers the trails, boomtowns, and stories of the Klondike Gold Rush.

park designation:National Historical Park

Directions:

Park headquarters and visitor center are located at 2nd and Broadway in Skagway, Alaska. To get to Skagway by car: you can access the park via the Alaska Marine Highway or the South Klondike Highway. By plane: you can fly into the Skagway Airport. By water: You can visit the park by cruise ship, tour boat, or ferry. The park visitor center is less than half a mile from all docks.

For detailed directions, please visit this link.

Directions

Operating Hours:

Summer Hours

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is open year-round. Visitor services and access to historic buildings are most abundant early May through late September. Limited services are offered October 1 through late April by appointment only.

Exceptions:

Spring hours (April 30, 2027 - May 1, 2027)

Spring Training (May 2, 2027 - May 2, 2027)

Winter Hours (October 1, 2026 - April 29, 2027)

Weather Information:

Skagway has a highly variable climate with frequent rain and high winds. Average temperatures May through September range from 47-60ºF. Average temperatures October through April range from 28-38ºF.