Skagway Scavenger Hunt: Searching for Skagway

Activity Info: Searching for Skagway

On the Searching for Skagway Scavenger Hunt, you and a team will set off in search of the sites and stories that give Skagway, Alaska, its form and identity. As you roam, you'll come to find out that nothing here is as simple as it seems.

A quick internet search of Skagway, Alaska, produces pages of results detailing a small Alaskan town with a rock-solid identity as the Gateway to the Gold Rush. It's true that tales of the Klondike Gold Rush abound in Skagway. There's even a National Historical Park dedicated to sharing and preserving this history. But, as scavenger-hunt players will soon see, this portrayal is misleading. Skagway, Alaska, may have been born from the Klondike Gold Rush, but so was a complicated union between European Americans and Alaskan Natives. It's here, in the hazy aftermath of this union, that its soul remains firmly lodged.

During your hunt, you and your team will work together to follow clues that lead to important cultural and historic sites. Along the way, you'll take on trivia questions and overcome challenges designed to shine light on each location's shadowy corners, tease out lost stories, and help you see them in context. Many of these challenges pull your team out of its roles as a passive observer of history and throw you into the spotlight as creative masterminds, taking photos and conquering performance challenges that are as daring and clever as they are hilarious. Each completed challenge earns your teams points and a chance to rise to the top of our leaderboards.

Do you have what it takes to complete the Searching for Skagway Scavenger Hunt? There's no time like the present to find out!

You can do our interactive scavenger hunt at any time. Explore the sights of Skagway.

Some of what you'll see: , Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park