Join us for a trip through time in a rugged landscape as luring today as it was when the stampeders rushed the Yukon gold fields in the 1890s. You will retrace the steps of thousands of gold seekers on this five day/four night iconic backpacking trip. We will hike from the temperate rainforest of Alaska, up over the famed Chilkoot Pass, and along the trail to the headwaters of the Yukon River in Canada’s Yukon Territory. You will camp in the historic Canyon City, Sheep Camp, Happy Camp and Lindeman City campgrounds, each with its own rich history and incredible views.

Used by Tlingit traders as a route to the interior to trade with other native groups, the Chilkoot Trail later became infamous as a path for thousands of stampeders on their journey to Dawson City and the goldfields of the Klondike in the late 1890s. Now it is included in both the National Park Service and Parks Canada system and provides travelers the opportunity to experience a piece of what the journey to the Klondike was like for the stampeders of 1897-98. Truly a unique journey for anyone who chooses to undertake the challenge, the Chilkoot Trail is a jewel and one of the most awe-inspiring hikes in the world.

Starting near the coast at the end of Taiya Inlet, adventurers begin in coastal temperate rainforest, and as they ascend, pass into the subalpine and alpine zones as they cross over the Chilkoot Pass into Canada. Once at the summit and beginning to descend, modern-day stampeders find themselves traveling through boreal forest as they head to their destination at Lake Bennett.

Through of all of these ecological zones we see artifacts left by those hopeful miners, evidence of the sheer will many of these historic adventurers had to try and reach the famed goldfields of the Klondike. Finally the journey winds down with a ride back to civilization  aboard the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad which, in itself, is a marvel of human engineering.