Album: Dyea Historic Townsite, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Alaska

Alaska Region

This album consists of photos and videos taken by Park Cultural Landscape Program staff as part of fieldwork performed in 2016-17. The media within may not reflect the current conditions of the unit. Dyea Historic Townsite is a historic vernacular and archeological landscape located at the mouth of the Taiya River Valley at the northernmost extension of Alaska's Inside Passage. Its position was important to Native Alaskans, who used this area as a seasonal hunting and fishing village and a starting point for trading expeditions between the coast and the interior. With the 1896 discovery of gold in the Klondike, the town became the gateway for Stampeders heading to the gold fields. Hotels, saloons, warehouses, and outfitters rapidly sprang up in the town. The historic townsite exists in a continuously evolving landscape, exposed to a range of environmental dynamics that have define and shaped the area.