Dyea was one of the major towns to grow into prominence as a result of the Klondike gold rush. A small Tlingit village and trading post for many years before the rush with a population around 138 ...

DYEA, Alaska — If the Dyea dirt could talk, what a story it would tell. Back in 1897, this now-abandoned gold rush boom town nine miles out of Skagway supported 8,000 people and 150 businesses ...

The townsite of Dyea (from the Tlingit word Dayéi, meaning “to pack”) sits at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail. During 1897/1898 it was a fierce competitor with neighboring Skagway, just five miles ...

As twin cities go, they are nine miles and 112 years apart. Skagway, Alaska, is a thriving community whose streets fill with tourists every summer; its counterpart, Dyea, is a ghost town that never ...