Boss Bakery/Trail Center
in Alaska
This one-story building began its history at the beginning of the Klondike Gold Rush as the Brackett Trading Post. Proprietor James Brackett built a successful business here, eventually expanding to the point that he needed to move to a larger building. Brackett sold the building to Stephen Baur, the "Boss Baker", who opened a restaurant specializing in freshly baked goods just in time to catch the peak of the Klondike stampede.
An 1898 newspaper advertisement read, "For everything first class in the line of bread, cakes, pastries, call on the Boss Baker." The Boss Bakery building currently serves as the park’s Trail Center. Each summer, folks stop by before hiking the Chilkoot Trail to pick up permits, receive their pre-hike briefing, and learn about bear safety.
- States
- Alaska
- Trail type
- National Historical Park trail
- Centroid coords
- 59.4555°, -135.3147°
About Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
This trail is inside Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, a national historical park managed by the U.S. National Park Service. Conditions, road status, trail closures, and reservation requirements are published on the park's NPS page — check it before driving in, especially in winter or during major weather events.
Official NPS trail page: https://www.nps.gov/places/boss-bakery-trail-center.htm
Park homepage: https://www.nps.gov/klgo/index.htm
Plan your hike
Maps + permits: long-distance trails like this often require permits for through-hiking, backcountry camping, or specific sections (especially in National Parks). Check with the maintaining organisation listed above and the relevant land manager before booking travel.
Water + supplies: water sources vary seasonally on most U.S. trails. Carry a filter and consult current trail-condition reports — through-hiker journals (PCT-L, AT Reddit, etc.) and the maintaining organisation publish regular updates.
When to go: hiking seasons vary widely with elevation, latitude, and snowpack. Through-hikers traditionally start the AT in March-April (Springer northbound) and the PCT in late April (Campo northbound). High-elevation western trails (CDT, JMT, Wonderland) generally aren't passable until July.
If you've hiked Boss Bakery/Trail Center and have current notes (water sources, trail closures, permit changes), tell us at /contact — we update pages as we learn.
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Sources
Trail data on this page is compiled from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), the maintaining organisation's public-facing materials, and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA where excerpts are quoted). Distance, terminus, and descriptive text for nationally-designated trails are hand-curated from federal land-manager websites and trail-association sources. We do not modify the underlying data; this page presents what is already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page.