White Pass Railway

Day 13 – Wednesday, July 10, 2024 – Skagway, Alaska

We arrived in Skagway overnight and had to get up early for a 7:30 a.m. excursion. This was a day I was thankful I had brought granola bars with me as I didn't want to take the extra time to have breakfast on the ship, but instead just ate on the way to our destination. The dock in Skagway isn't open to the public because of mudslides, so we left the ship via a tender boat and then took a bus to our White Pass Rail & Klondike Highway excursion. We rode a narrow gauge train on tracks which were laid in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush to White Pass and into the Canadian Yukon. Once again, it was rainy and foggy and much of the time the “beautiful canyon” was full of fog. The little glimpses we did see looked nice. We then took a bus back down to Skagway. 

We walked around town the rest of our time, including having lunch, sharing fish and chips and one king crab leg. It was another town, like Dawson City, that made you feel like you were back in time to the 1800s and the time of the gold rush.