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The Red Onion Saloon is a favorite eating establishment with the cruise crowd, which will total about 775,000 visitors a year. An additional 125,000 visitors will arrive by land. That's a bunch of tourists for a town of 650 permanent residents.
This is the most photographed building in Skagway. It is the Arctic Brotherhood Hall and was built in 1899 with 8,833 pieces of driftwood on the facade.
This structure, now owned by the National Park Service, was built in 1887 by Captain William Moore and his son, Bernard, founders of Skagway.
Looking at the main drag in Skagway, a town basically owned and run by cruise lines.
And speaking of cruise ships, this one was in port at the time.
A look at the small boat harbor at Skagway. Like most Alaskan coastal towns, the small boat harbor enhances the ambiance of the town.
A bald eagle, fishing along the road to Dyea.
This is just about all that remains of the town of Dyea, Alaska, the jumping off point for Klondikers traveling over the Chilkoot Trail to the Klondike gold fields. Dyea at one time was a town of 10,000 people.
