Woodchopper Roadhouse
Allan C. 2016. Woodchopper Roadhouse
Roadhouses played an important role in travel during the Klondike-Alaska Gold Rush. Roadhouses offered a place to rest, regroup, and pick up food and supplies while traveling in the north. Valentine Smith built the roadhouse off Woodchopper Creek and made a profit from selling wood to steamboats traveling along the Yukon River. Ownership of the roadhouse changed hands multiple times until Jack and Kate Welch purchased the building. However, use of roadhouses diminished with the decline in steamboat travel in the 1930s. Today, the roadhouse sits abandoned in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Allan, Chris
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Units
- YUCH
- Keywords
- Coal Creek, Klondike-Alaska Gold Rush, steamboats, Woodchopper Creek, Woodchopper Roadhouse, Yukon River, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve