Category: Dyea

Dyea – historic townsite, now abandoned, at head of Lynn Canal, trailhead for Chilkoot Trail

False-front wall is only remnant of gold rush-era Dyea still standing

False-front wall is only remnant of gold rush-era Dyea still standing

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 away....