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Hikers can finally walk the US side of the Chilkoot Trail. But what happens at the border?
The U.S. portion of a historic, 33-mile hiking trail between Skagway and British Columbia has been off limits to backcountry ...
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Canada relaxes border rules, but not enough for the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad
depending on the Canada border situation,” Craney said. But the work done by the Yukon government to relax border restrictions has paved the way for other Skagway-based tour companies to resume ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
It was a border of words only. A present-day map displayed in the Mendenhall ... such as the notorious gold rush port of Skagway, because the land belonged to Canada. The Americans said otherwise.
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A Skagway newspaper owner was turned back at the Canadian border. Agents deemed her return home “non-essential”
Gretchen Wehmhoff and Melinda Munson bought the Skagway News in March, not long before Canada’s border closed to non-essential travel. Munson relocated to Skagway with her family, but Wehmhoff ...
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Mayor of Skagway, Alaska, hopes vaccinations will allow cross-border travel
The mayor of Skagway, Alaska, is among those wondering if more vaccinations against COVID-19 will lead to some allowance of travel across the Canada-U.S. border. Andrew Cremata says any easing of ...