Getting to Skagway, AK is a little long and tricky, but not impossible! Below are your options. We are more than happy to help you book your travel, since it is a bit confusing! The below options can be done round trip, or you can mix it up and choose a different option for your arrival and departure days :)

Option 1: Fly into Whitehorse, Canada (via Vancouver), rent a car, and drive 2 beautiful hours to Skagway. You will need your passport for this option!

Option 2: Fly into Juneau, Alaska and travel to Skagway by one of 3 options below. Please note that your flight times may not work out with the boats, and this might mean spending the night in Juneau. Also, weather will impact Alaska Seaplanes flights.

- Book a 45min plan ride with Alaska Seaplanes (flights are out of the Juneau airport). This option is about $250 ONE WAY. Please be aware that these are very tiny planes and you will land in a narrow valley. There are about 3 -4 flights a day.

- Book a ticket on the Alaska State Ferry (~$85 one way). Take a Taxi from the airport or your Juneau hotel to the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry Terminal and take a 7 hour ferry ride. You can book a private room on this ferry, and there is food as well as lounges. You can even put a car on the ferry! These ferries depart for Skagway usually around 7am, arriving around 1:30pm. For the return, they usually leave around 2:15pm and arrive Juneau around 9pm.

- Book a ticket on Alaska Fjordlines (~$165 one way). Take a Taxi from the airport or your Juneau hotel to Statter Harbor at Auke Bay where you will catch a medium sized vessel that will take about 3.5 hours to get to Skagway. On this boat, there will be light snacks and drinks as well as plenty of opportunities for whale watching and other wildlife viewing. This is our favorite option for people when they come visit. You will leave Juneau at 4:30pm and arrive Skagway at 8pm. For the return, you will depart Skagway at 8am and arrive Juneau at 11:30am. They do offer a bus for an airport drop off. This is the both reliable and quick. If you can time planes just right, you will be able to arrive same day into Skagway.

There is a clinic in Skagway, but it can only prescribe a limited amount of drugs and perform rudimentary procedures. If you break a bone or become extremely ill, you have to get medevacked to Juneau or Anchorage. It is a good idea to check your insurance for this kind of coverage or purchase traveler's insurance for the trip if you are concerned about a possible injury or have an underlying medical condition.

Most accommodations in Skagway won't take bookings for 2025 until September or later. Please check back frequently with them!

We only have a few of hotels in town, but you can also book an Airbnb. Skagway is VERY walkable and flat. There is almost no need for a car if staying at one of these hotels or at an AirBnB that is in town. If you book something out on the Dyea road, you will either need a car or call a cab. Please note that we only have one cab in town and rental cars are about $250+ per 8 hours. Also, all the hotels are very similar in price, whether upscale or not.

If you choose to fly into Juneau instead of flying into Whitehorse and driving to Skagway, the below websites take you to your 3 transportation options to Skagway after you arrive into Juneau.