Taking guided Chilkoot trail tours, you should plan on being exposed to a wide variety of wonderful sights. The trail is about 33 miles long, and backpackers usually take several days to travel the length of the trail. Experienced hikers can do it in a couple of days, but guided Chilkoot trail tours usually take longer, to allow backpackers the chance to absorb the sights and sounds of the trail, and to enjoy it more.

Guided Chilkoot trail tours take travellers through a historic part of the Yukon in western Alaska and Canada. The views are spectacular, as the Chilkoot trail takes travelers to heights of more than three thousand feet, and provides a wide perspective on hundreds of miles of lovely Yukon territory. Wildlife is copious in this part of the continent, and the landscape is breathtaking and mountainous.

Historic Guided Chilkoot Trail Tours
Guided Chilkoot trail tours expose travelers to a fascinating piece of North American history. In 1896, gold was discovered in the Canadian Yukon. Miners gathered and established the town of Dawson. However, word of the gold discovery did not reach the outside world for a year, because of an especially cold winter that froze the waterways.

In July of 1897, word finally reached parts of America and Canada, and more than a hundred thousands of would-be gold miners streamed into the region and began taking the Chilkoot trail from Dyea, in Alaska. There were other trails to the area, but they were even more treacherous than the Chilkoot trail. Only about 30,000 "stampeders," as they were called, ever made it to the gold mines.

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