A beginners guide to visiting Skagway by cruise ship

A beginners guide to visiting Skagway by cruise ship

Nestled at the northern end of Lynn Canal, which is actually a 2,000-foot-deep fjord that extends for 90 miles through Alaska's Inside Passage, Skagway is a tiny town with a larger-than-life history and personality. During the frantic Klondike gold rush of 1898, tens of thousands of stampeders sailed from Seattle and other points to what was then a lonely estuarial outpost to begin their arduous journey through the wilderness into the Canadian Y…