Everything about Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park totally explained
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a
United States National Historical Park commemorating the
Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. The gold rush was in the
Yukon Territory, and this park comprises staging areas for the trek there, and routes leading in its direction. The park consists of four units: three in and around
Skagway, Alaska and a fourth in the
Pioneer Square National Historic District in
Seattle, Washington.
The story of the Klondike Gold Rush can only be appreciated by looking on both sides of the
Canada–United States border. National historic sites in
Whitehorse and
Dawson City,
Yukon, help complete the story. Klondike Gold Rush NHP and
Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, in
British Columbia, form Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.
Skagway unit
The Skagway unit protects much of downtown Skagway including 15 restored historic buildings. The park also preserves portions of the
White Pass Trail and the
Chilkoot Trail, which leaves from the historic townsite of
Dyea,
Alaska and runs to
Lake Bennett, British Columbia, from which prospectors could raft to Dawson City, Yukon. Portions of Dyea are also part of the historical park. The
visitor center in Skagway has information regarding current traveling conditions along the Chilkoot Trail. A fee is required to hike the 33-mile trail.
Seattle unit
An integral part of the park is the Visitor's Center in Seattle, Washington, in the
Pioneer Square National Historic District. It functions as an interpretive center and museum, and also has information on how to visit the Skagway unit of the park. It opened
June 2,
1979, and was located in the Union Trust Annex (built 1902), across Main Street from
Occidental Park.
The Seattle unit is now located in an 1889 building, the Cadillac Hotel at 319 Second Avenue South. The Cadillac Hotel building was a major point of outfitting and departure during the gold rush stampede. Severely damaged in the
2001 Nisqually earthquake, it was rehabilitated 2004–2005 as home to the Seattle Unit of the park, and was opened and dedicated
26 June 2006.
An international park
In 1969, the US and Canadian governments jointly declared their intention to make Chilkoot Trail a component of a Klondike Gold Rush International Historic Park. The US portion was eventually established in 1976 as part of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The B.C. portion of the trail became Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, one of several sites in the national park system associated with the Klondike. But it wasn't until the centennial of the gold rush, in 1998, that the dream of an international park was realized, when Klondike Gold Rush NHP and Chilkoot Trail NHS joined to form Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park. Their previous legal names were retained, while the new name reflected co-operative management between the two park services, and the formalization of relations which had in fact been going on for years.
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