Visited: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
I am still amazed that more people don’t take advantage of ranger talks. When we got to Skagway, we were happy to have enough time, for a change. And so we went straight to the visitor center to find talks of interest, and noted two - one on how Dyea and Skagway, towns of equal size during the gold rush, changed trajectories so quickly, and one on the buffalo soldiers stationed in Skagway. The latter - held at the house of the man who realized the potential of Skagway before gold had been discovered - was particularly interesting - and only Megan and I were there to hear it. Other than the NPS site, I can’t recommend the town - like many things here, it’s overrun with petri dishes for humans ( a.k.a. cruise ships) - but the NPS site is very well done.
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