Taiya Inlet

View from the Chilkat Peninsula to the mouth of the Taiya Inlet into Chilkoot Inlet

The Taiya Inlet is located in a valley in the Coast Mountains Bay ( estuary ) in the panhandle of Alaska.

It runs from the mouth of the Taiya River at Dyea south to the Chilkoot Inlet, an arm of Lynn Canal. The former gold- mining town of Skagway is located on the eastern shore of the bay.

The name of the Tlingit for the bay was documented in 1868 by Commander Meade of the United States Navy as Tyya or Tya and published in 1870 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1883 recorded Aurel and Arthur Krause on the name Dejah Inlet, while Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka - also 1883 - reported by Dayay Inlet.

During the Klondike Gold Rush, the end of the 19th century, the waterway leading to the land routes to the Klondike River over the Chilkoot or White Pass through the Taiya Inlet.

The bay is traversed from the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway.