White Pass Train and Biking in Skagway: Alaska Cruise Excursion

I’m catching up on posts this week that I wanted to write a while ago, but never got around to. Here’s another related to our Alaska cruise.

If you’ve ever been on a cruise, like our Ryndam Holland America Inside Passage Cruise, you know that there are countless cruise excursion options for each stop and they all cost a fortune. After scouring the excursion offerings for Alaska, we decided on the White Pass Train and Bike excursion as the one cruise excursion we would take.

Some of the other Alaska cruise excursions that we considered were whale watching and glacier trekking. Whale watching sounded appealing, but we could do that elsewhere. And we were very torn about taking a helicopter ride and glacier trekking excursion — but decided that the $400+ per person was too much money. So the only excursion we took was the White Pass Train and Biking excursion.

The White Pass and Yukon Railroad was built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. It’s a narrow gage train now serves tourists with gorgeous views and a history of Skagway, Alaska.

We took the train one-way and from there continued on our biking excursion.

We weren’t sure what to expect from the biking excursion. But it was pretty much entirely down hill. There were several stops for scenic outlooks. We stopped at one point to see the White Pass Train go back down to Skagway

and stopped again for freshly melted glacier water. (The water was incredibly refreshing.)   

If you’re looking for an Alaska cruise excursion that is a little less touristy than some of the bus tours, I would recommend seeing if your cruise ship offers a White Pass Train and Biking excursion.

Recommended Reading:

1. Ryndam Holland America: Alaska Inside Passage Cruise Review and Photos
2. And We’re Off: Alaska, Vancouver, Banff and Beyond
3. Taking a Taxi is Greener than Public Transportation: Lessons Learned in Juneau, Alaska
4. ms Ryndam Cruise Ship: First Impressions
5. Biking in Stanley Park: Vancouver, BC