Head­lines screamed “Gold!” The dream of a bet­ter life cat­a­pult­ed thou­sands of peo­ple to Alas­ka and the Yukon Ter­ri­to­ry. Their jour­ney shaped them, and changed the peo­ple they encoun­tered and the north for­ev­er. Today, the park remem­bers the trails, boom­towns, and sto­ries of the Klondike Gold Rush.