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 [...]
Take time to visit Southeast Alaska and explore the many recreational opportunities available especially for independent travelers. We’re a jaded bunch here in Alaska and don’t always appreciate our surroundings. I often forget how overwhelming Southeast Alaska was to all of my senses stepping off the M/V Matanuska onto the Wrangell dock for the first [...]
At more than 17 million acres in size, the Tongass National Forest located in Southeast Alaska is the largest forest administered in the overall national forest system. The Tongass is world renowned for its old growth temperate rain forests covered with enormous Sitka spruce, Hemlock fir, and Yellow cedar. These forests protect watersheds that support [...]
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 [...]
Tongass NF cabins are a great way to explore the region and enjoy its outdoor activities. Access is by boat or plane making the cabins an easy way to visit the wilderness.
The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) has put together an extraordinary website were Humpback watchers can actually identify the individual whales that are being observed.
An inability to comprehend the great distances found in Alaska is a realization newcomers often encounter in the Great Land. Alaska defies their attempts to compare it with past experiences. Terrain varies immensely and distances between regions are vast. A useful way to understand Alaska is consider it as six states within a much greater [...]
Anan Creek is internationally known as one of the most productive Pink salmon streams in North America, making it by default a unmatched location for viewing both Black and Brown bears. Anan Creek is located on the north shore of the Cleveland Peninsula, just south of Wrangell Island and north of Ketchikan. Wrangell resident Bonnie [...]
