Alaska's cities
Hyder, Alaska
Portland Canal town has bears and is state's southernmost with road connection to Canada
Alaska.com
Hyder sits at the head of Portland Canal, a 70-mile-long fjord that forms part of the U.S.-Canadian border. It is three miles from Stewart, British Columbia.
Hyder is hard to reach, but bears find it easily enough. Each summer, black bears gather to catch salmon in Fish Creek not far from town. Bear-viewing areas are available.
Hyder, with a population of about 125, is the only community in Alaska's southern Inside Passage accessible by road. Tourism is the main economy. A bottled water business opened in 1998 and employs about 40 residents.
History
Nass River Indians called the head of Portland Canal ''Skam-a-Kounst,'' meaning ''safe place.'' Gold and silver lodes were discovered in late 1898. Hyder was originally called Portland City.
The name was changed in 1914 for Canadian mining engineer Frederick Hyder. Hyder boomed between 1920 and 1930, when the Riverside Mine extracted gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and tungsten. Westmin Resources Ltd. currently operates a gold and silver mine.
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