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Seattle Gateway to Gold

Gold! read the headlines in July of 1897. After years of struggling through a depression, the people of the nation were intrigued by the possibility of riches. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park preserves the story of the 1897-98 stampede to the Yukon gold fields and Seattle’s role in this event. The park offers a glimpse at the stories of adventure and hardship of the gold rush.
 
 
 
Four prospectors panning for Klondike Gold

Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park
In 1996 the international significance of the Klondike Gold Rush was officially recognized by Canada and the United States with the creation of the Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park. The Seattle unit, located in the Pioneer Square Historic District, commemorates the origin for many of the stampeders who headed off to the Klondike region. Other units making up the international park include the Klondike Gold Rush Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska and the Canadian parks, Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site and Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Sites.
 
 

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319 Second Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98104

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(206) 220-4240

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(206) 381-0664

Climate

Winters are cool and wet mid-40's to high 20's. Snow in downtown rarely last a day or two, but a few miles of downtown snow depths can be over 10 feet deep.
Summer (mid-July-late August)can be warm and dry.  Normal summer temperatures mid-70's to 55.
September weather becomes cool, cloudy and occasionally wet. Weather one often associates with Seattle.

Often confused with the wetter coastal Northwest climate, Seattle's annual precipitation averages about 35 inches. Most of this falls from mid-September till June often as light to moderate showers. Learn more about our weather.
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Did You Know? Sales in Seattle reached twenty five million dollars by 1898

Did You Know?
In 1896, a year before the Stampeders travelled through Seattle to the Klondike, the city's total business receipts were $300,000. Within eight months of the S.S. Portland's arrival in August 1897 Seattle businesses generated $25 million.
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