Chilkoot trail tours typically take travelers from Dyea along the 32-34 mile length of the trail, and all the way to Lake Bennett, in British Columbia. This is the ideal way to travel the Chilkoot trail, as it is historically the way miners traveled along the trail hundreds of years ago. These miners were called "stampeders" for the wild rush they made to the area once gold was discovered.

The trail first became so popular during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. Ships began to arrive, during the summer of 1897, into the ports of Seattle and San Francisco, filled with miners carrying gold back from the Yukon. Soon, thousands of wealth-seekers were streaming up to western Alaska to begin the journey across the Chilkoot trail to British Columbia.

Chilkoot Trail Tours
Today, visitors to the region can take Chilkoot trail tours and travel the same route as the thousands of stampeders did more than a century ago. Most Chilkoot trail tours typically begin in Dyea, in Western Alaska, which was the traditional starting point for travelers during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Following the traditional route, most Chilkoot trail tours will take you along the approximately 33-mile length of the trail. You'll end up near Whitehorse, in Canada. Along the way, you'll not only have had a chance to learn a great deal about Klondike Gold Rush history, but you'll also be exposed to some of the most stunning landscape on the continent.

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