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What to eat, drink, and do in Skagway, Alaska: A big guide for a tiny town
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items Whether you’re cruising along the Inside Passage or visiting southern Alaska via land, you’ll definitely make a stop in the tiny gold rush town of Skagway.
With a year round population of just a few hundred and no stop light to be found along its d...
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Wine and dine
Spruce tip chicken wings—if you like lemon pepper you’ll enjoy. Spruce tip beer in the halibut fish n chips batter—delightful. Chili made with their beer—solid. And the beers are pretty good though the spruce tip beer isn’t very sprucey. This is a gr...
Skagway Brewing Company
This is where to go in Skagway for awesome beer. The atmosphere is relaxed. The music they play is top notch. The merch is really well done. And the beer garden is stellar if the mosquitoes don’t carry you away. All of the IPAs we tried we loved. And...
Klondike Brewing Company
Fresh fry bread as large as your face and covered in cinnamon sugar. I literally need to say nothing else except they also have a fabulous gift shop full of local treats, jellies, souvenirs, and other Alaskan quirkiness. Don’t share the fry bread—get...
KLONDIKE DOUGHBOY, Skagway - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Phone ...
This is your breakfast and brunch spot in Skagway. Options for the carnivores all the way to the plant eaters in your life and talk about eclectic! It’s downright funky in the best way. Service is top notch.
The Sittin' Sasquatch
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This is a must-do. I’m not joking. There’s not much else anyway, but even if there was I’d still say take this excursion. It’s a perfect combination of nature and gold rush history, it’s comfortable, and it takes around 3 hrs with trains running up a...
White Pass & Yukon Route Railway
T-shirts, hoodies, coats of all kinds, magnets, keychains, bags, ulus, socks, kids items/clothing, personalized souvenirs, all the salmon preparations you can imagine and other specialty food items, and so, so much more. This is a one-stop souvenir s...
Skagway Trading Company
Skagway has about two dozen original gold rush era buildings that make up an historic district with this visitor center at the heart. It’s just steps from the railroad and free for all. Inside you’ll find helpful NPS staff along with exhibits, a coff...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Visitor Center
Another area of Skagway where nature’s beauty meets the harsh reality of gold rush era mortality. The Gold Rush cemetery is a short walk from downtown Skagway and leads to other hiking trails that include beautiful waterfalls. The walk to the cemeter...
Gold Rush Cemetery, Skagway
The Skagway Visitor Center is located in a building from 1899 covered in ornate driftwood “siding” called the Arctic Brotherhood Hall. The building once served as the headquarters for this Gold Rush era fraternal organization but now the local visito...
Skagway Visitor Information Center