Skagway Videos
Every video on Skagway Times: our daily In Port Today video and National Park Service films on the Gold Rush, the Chilkoot Trail and the park museums.
In Port Today
Our own short videos on the ships in port and how busy town will be.
In Port Today: October 18, 2026
Our 35-second daily video: which cruise ships are in Skagway, when they arrive and leave, and how busy town will be.
What a busy day looks like: July 14, 2027
An In Port Today video for a four-ship summer day, with nearly 14,000 cruise visitors in town.
The park and the Gold Rush
Start here: the park, its film and what to see in town.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The park's history, nature and the people who care for it, from downtown Skagway to the Chilkoot Trail.
What to do at the park in Skagway
A quick ranger rundown of the park's activities and how to make the most of a visit to Skagway.
Gold Fever: Race to the Klondike
The park's film: reenactments, archival photographs and scenery following the stampeders through Dyea, Skagway and Dawson.
Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail
The stampeders' route, 9 miles from town.
Dyea: the Gold Rush town that vanished
Modern and historic Dyea, the 1897–98 boomtown at the foot of the Chilkoot Trail that is now nearly a ghost town.
Hiking the Chilkoot Trail: what to know
Park rangers on the risks and challenges of the historic Chilkoot Trail, for anyone thinking about the hike.
Start at the Chilkoot Trail Center
Why hikers stop at the park's Trail Center on Broadway, between 5th and 6th Avenues, before heading out.
Inside the museums
Guided tours of the park's historic buildings.
Inside the visitor center and museum
A guided, audio-described walk through the park's visitor center and Gold Rush museum in the old railroad depot.
Inside Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum
A guided, audio-described tour of the saloon of con man Soapy Smith, now a National Park Service museum.
Inside the Moore House
A guided, audio-described tour of the Moore House, home of the family that founded Skagway.
Skagway life and nature
Local people, fish and wildlife.
Growing up in Skagway
Skagway School's 7th and 8th graders interview residents of different generations about life in town.
Studying the eulachon run
Park biologists, the Skagway Traditional Council and the Taiya Inlet Watershed Council study the hooligan, an important local fish.
Counting boreal toads
Each year park scientists survey a species few visitors think to look for. Find out why.
In Port Today videos are made by Skagway Times from the published cruise schedule. The other videos are by the National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, played from nps.gov. A short ad plays before each video.
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