In an article in the AAA magazine this month, it rates the Skagway White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad as the Best for History and Culture of the land excursions available during the Inside Passage trip.
It reads:
From 1897 to 1899, Skagway boomed with prospectors trekking to the Klondike gold fields. Today, historic buildings, including rehabilitated storefronts painted in Victorian rainbow hues, line the town's wooden boardwalks.
Ranger-led walking tours of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical park explore the Skagway founding family's 1887 frontier cabin and exhibits of 1890s life. The Skagway Museum reveals tales of the town's infamous bully and con man, "Soapy" Smith.
Skagway's must-do treat is a ride on the 19th-century White Pass & Yukon Route railroad, climbing 2,865 feet above sea level. Sit inside vintage cars or stand on outside platforms as the train slices through glistening snowfields before crossing dizzying trestle bridges and isolated mountain passes. The narrow-gauge train once transported miners from Skagway to Bennett. Visitors can learn more about them in the tiny but intriguing Trail of '98 Museum.
Source: AAALiving, March/April 2012, pg. 29.
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