At
the northernmost point of Alaska's Inside Passage,
Skagway was the gateway for the gold rush of
the 1890's. You can relive the boomtown's colorful past
at the 'Days of '98' dance-hall revue, shop for handcrafted
gold-nugget jewelry, sample snow-crab omelets in a local
restaurant, and hop aboard the historic White Pass and
Yukon Railroad.
An
ancestral home of Alaska's Tlingit Indians, Ketchican
displays its proud native heritage in colorful totem
poles - the town boasts the largest collection in
the world. Head over - and up - to Creek Street, with
its shops and galleries built on stilts above a crystal
stream.
