Tagged: Lynn Canal

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....

Sentinel Island Lighthouse has been a beacon for boaters since 1902

Sentinel Island, located along Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage, was the location of one of the first U.S. lighthouses built in Alaska. (Towards the end of the Russian-American Company occupation of Alaska it had a...