In 1896, a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush the next year as hopeful miners, known as "stampeders," descended ...

The Klondike Gold Rush visitor center tells how the steamer Portland brought 68 miners from Alaska into the Seattle harbor. They were bearing gold and the rush was on.

Much of it lies within Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, which includes downtown Skagway, a visitors’ center, the Chilkoot Trail and the White Pass Trail corridor.

Alaska is arguably one of the most sought-after cruise destinations in the world! With a little planning, you can turn y ...

Greetings from Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Seattle What a hidden gem of history sandwiched between high rises. Learning the history of the Alaskan gold rush, and of Seattles early ...

The park offers a well-preserved window into a brief, bustling time in Alaska’s history that captured the imagination of the country. In 1896, several local miners found gold along a tributary of the ...

But tucked in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood in the historic Cadillac Hotel is the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, designated a national park in 1997 to preserve the history of ...

Sure, Seattle was the launching point for the Klondike Gold Rush, the "last grand adventure" of the 19th century. And yes, it was this very newspaper that started the whole stampede to the ...

The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park opened the doors of its new facility Monday -- a coming-out party in a historic building that some had marked for the wrecking ball.

Corrie Francis Parks is an artist based out of Montana. Last year, she applied for the artist residency program offered by the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park. The program contracts ...