Historic Cape Spencer Light is located on Cape Spencer at the entrance of Cross Sound and Icy Strait from the outside waters of the Gulf of Alaska. It is found inside the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park. Cross Sound marks the northern exit for vessels traveling along the Inside Passage of Southeast Alaska. The [...]
The International Gold Rush Trail is a proposed thematic system joining communities together a land and water route from the docks of Seattle through the Chilkoot Pass to the Yukon gold fields. This is a trail of history and experiences gained from retracing the steps of prospectors on the Trail of ’98 suitable for hikers, [...]
Marine travel provides a ready way to explore the many wildlife viewing and recreational opportunities found in coastal Alaska. Alaska is rugged coastal state, rich with maritime traditions and nautical history. With more than 90 percent of the State’s population living along its coasts, marine transportation dominates as the prime means of access for visitors [...]
Kennecott is a historic mining town tucked away in a corner of the great Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Built to claim a truly huge and rich copper deposit in some of the wildest terrain of Alaska, much of this mining town remains in place.
Nearly 110 years ago, a wave of seemingly ordinary people poured relentlessly into the North, suffering incredible hardships to seek their fortunes toiling in the frozen earth. Thousands of these erstwhile adventurers crossed through the wild expanses of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon in the years of 1897 and 1898; reaching out for the [...]
Abandoned for nearly four decades, Ukivok is one of Alaska’s ghost villages hovering precariously on a rocky cliff facing the Bering Sea on King Island. Remains of village buildings perched on poles stand eerily on the unforgiving terrain and wait for the elements to scour them from the rocks back into the sea. Ukivok (64˚55’56.09″ [...]
The watercourse running from the Spatsizi Plateau to the Pacific Ocean is a territory of superlatives, yet known simply as the Stikine River. Naturist John Muir’s initial trip up the river changed his life. He noted 300 glaciers along its shores. Details are in his book Travels in Alaska. Muir says of the Stikine, it’s a “Yosemite 100 miles long.”
