Or, you can spend one or more nights, and return to Skagway by train. From Carcross you can take a motorcoach to Whitehorse or return to Skagway the same day. You’ll be served a box lunch along the way to the turn-of-the-century Bennett Station House, reachable only by train or by making it over the Chilkoot Trail. You’ve gone this far, keep going with the Bennett Scenic Journey, a 67.5-mile ride through history to Carcross. Ride on a real gold-rush era, narrow-gauge railroad Keep Going There are also fewer passengers on these trains. For the best conditions, book passage in the book in the morning, available daily, for the soft morning light, or an evening train, which runs Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays, for the glow of the evening light. You’ll find tremendous photo opportunities all along the route. Before looping at the White Pass Summit, you’ll get a look at the headwaters of the Yukon River.

Same for Dead Horse Gulch, with the bleached bones of perished gold-rush pack animals scattered below. You’ll pass Inspiration Point, looking down on the Skagway Harbor and out at the Sawtooth Range, and know how this spot got its name. The 2.5 hour excursion to White Pass Summit pulls out of the station at Skagway, passes by the grave of the city’s most notorious shyster, Soapy Smith, then begins to climb nearly 3,000 feet in 20 miles up steep grades and around tight, cliff-hanger curves. You’ll feel like you’ve gone back in time on this authentic train, as you climb 3,000 feet to scenic vistas and past aptly-named spots named Inspiration Point and Dead Horse Gulch on your way to get a look at the headwaters of the famous Yukon River. On the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, you’ll have several trip options, taking you past glacial rivers, waterfalls, and gorges for a real taste of wild Alaska.

Ride the rails on a real gold-rush era, narrow-gauge railroad from Skagway into the heart of the Yukon.

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