Dyea Road #1 Traditional Cache
KFDCanada&GEDCanada: Road work has removed this cache. Still #2 & #3 are good to go.
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Starting your trip along the Dyea Road you will get a great view
down the inlet towards Skagway. Continuee on your journey up the
Dyea Road towards the Chilkoot Trail and West Creek.
Dyea (pronounced /da?.'i?/ dye-ee) is a former town in the U.S.
state of Alaska. A few people live on individual small homesteads
in the valley; however, it is largely abandoned. It is located at
the convergence of the Taiya River and Taiya Inlet on the south
side of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of
Skagway Borough, Alaska. During the Klondike Gold Rush prospectors
disembarked at its port and used the Chilkoot Trail, a Tlingit
trade route over the Coast Mountains, to begin their journey to the
gold fields around Dawson City, Yukon, about 800 km (500 miles)
away. The port at Dyea had shallow water, while neighboring Skagway
had deep water. Dyea was abandoned when the White Pass and Yukon
Route railroad chose the White Pass Trail (instead of the
alternative Chilkoot Trail), which began at Skagway, for its route.
Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Dyea is now within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
All that remains are a number of foundations surrounded by scraps
of lumber and metal, 3 cemeteries, including one where almost every
person buried died on the same date in an avalanche on the gold
rush trail, and the ruins of the wharf.[1] Visitors can usually
spot brown bears, black bears, caribou, and eagles. Brown bears
tend to use the Dyea inlets to feed during salmon spawning season
(July-August).
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