You can drive to Skagway, but it’s much funner to take the White Pass & Yukon Route train from Carcross, YK or Fraser, BC on one of the Skagway, Alaska tours. After almost two-hours of watching the pretty scenery go by, I arrived in cruise ship mecca of Skagway. Unfortunately, thousands of cruise ship passengers [...]
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White Pass and Yukon Railroad, Canada
I had to bring my passport because of the strange geography of the borders up here in the Yukon. I was going on the White Pass & Yukon railway, which was built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush.
The route I was taking started in Fraser, B.C. and ended in Skagway, Alaska, so one provincial [...]