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Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Ketchikan - Alaska
Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Ketchikan - Alaska: Misty Fjords National Monument, Totem Bight State Historical Park, Creek Street, Totem Heritage Center, Potlatch Totem Park, Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary, Southeast Alaska Discovery Center, Deer Mountain Trail, Dolly's House Museum, Saxman Native Village, Tongass Historical Museum, Tongass National Forest
▶️ Southeast Alaska Discovery Center, Ketchikan, Alaska
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At the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center in downtown Ketchikan, you can explore the unique natural and cultural history of the Tongass National Forest, a place where people have lived in harmony with nature for thousands of years. Stroll through a lush rainforest, visit a re-created native fishing village and learn how the Tongass sustains Southeast Alaska communities today. You can also hear the story of the forest in person from one of our friendly Forest Service rangers, enjoy a film in our comfortable theatre or help your kids become Junior Rangers. In the summer, join a ranger for a guided walk and learn about Ketchikan's enduring ties to the rainforest.
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Close to Alaska’s southern tip, where the Panhandle plunges deep into British Columbia, lies rainy Ketchikan, the state’s fourth-largest city, squeezed onto a narrow strip of coast on Revillagigedo Island abutting the Tongass Narrows. Ketchikan is known for its commercial salmon fishing and indigenous Haida and Tlingit heritage – there is no better place in the US to see totem poles in all their craning, colorful glory. Every year between May and September, Ketchikan kowtows to around one million cruise-ship passengers, a deluge that turns the town into something of a tourist circus. Some cruisers stay in town, ferrying between souvenir shops and Ketchikan’s emblematic totems. Others jump on boats or seaplanes bound for the Gothic majesty of Misty Fiords National Monument, a nearby wilderness area.
Despite the seasonal frenzy, Ketchikan retains a notable heritage exemplified by the jumbled clapboard facades of Creek Street, perched on stilts above a river.
Ketchikan is a scenic town of approximately 14,000 people, located along the Tongass Narrows, at the foot of Deer Mountain, on Revillagigedo Island in Southeast Alaska.
Over 800,000 visitors come through Ketchikan each year by cruise ship. Most spend only a few hours in town, limiting their tourism and recreation choices. Visitors who arrive by air, via the Alaska Marine Highway System, or by private vessel and who have more time to spend can choose from a wider array of activities.
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Totem Heritage Center, 601 Deermount Street, ☎ (907) 225-5900 (fax: (907) 225-5901), May - Sep: open every day, 8AM - 5 PM; Oct - Apr: Mon - Fri 1 – 5 PM, Sat and Sun closed. $5 (May - Sep).
Tongass Historical Museum, 629 Dock Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901, ☎ (907) 225-5600, May - Sep: Open every day, 8 AM - 5 PM; Oct - Apr: Wed, Thu, Fri 1 PM– 5 PM, Sat 10AM - 4PM, Sun 1 – 4 PM, Mon & Tue closed. Visit the historical exhibits. $2 (May - Sep only), free for residents.
Southeast Alaska Discovery Center, 50 Main Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901, ☎ (907) 228-6220 (r10_ketchikan_Alaska_Info@fs.fed.us, fax: (907) 228-6234), See the rainforest interpretive exhibits.
Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show, Location varies, ☎ 907-225-9050 (info@lumberjacksports.com, fax: 907-247-9049), Watch an exhibition of lumberjack skills. Adults: $34 + tax, Children 3 - 12: $17.50 + tax, Children 2 & Under: Free.
Visit local totem-pole collections - Ketchikan is situated at the meeting place of three Alaska Native cultures, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian. Evidence of the rich artistic and dance traditions of the native cultures is apparent throughout the town, most visibly in the totem poles scattered through the historic district and found in larger groupings in totem parks near town:
Saxman Totem Park, (approximately 2.5 miles south of downtown).
Totem Bight State Historical Park, (approximately ten miles north of downtown Ketchikan).
Totem Heritage Center.
Tribal Fish Hatchery, (located within Ketchikan, approximately 0.75 miles from the cruise ship docks).
Exploring Ketchikan
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The Ketchikan Visitors Bureau located near the cruise ship berth 2, publishes a comprehensive area guide that provides maps, contact information for tour operators and local attractions, sample itineraries and community information.
A walking tour map is published by Pioneer Printing and the Ketchikan Daily News [30] and is available in many locations throughout the downtown area.
Probably the most scenic downtown stretch is historic Creek Street, which is only a short distance (three to four blocks) away from the cruise ship docks. Once a raucous red-light district, and during prohibition a row of speakeasies, these days Creek Street is home to a quieter class of establishment but still retains its delightful historic charm. Visitors walking downtown should be sure to include it in their walking tour to see the picturesque wooden buildings that stand on stilts above Ketchikan Creek.
Summer visitors can look down from the bridges that cross the creek and expect to spot salmon gathering in the brackish waters near the creek mouth, preparing to make their final ascent upstream, where they will spawn and die. Depending on time, tide, and other conditions you might also see a hungry harbor seal or two cruising the creek mouth for easy prey.
Ketchikan Alaska
Ketchikan serves as Alaska's southern most port of call for the majority of Inside Passage cruises. Visitors can tour the Tongass Historical Museum, which offers exhibits of traditional native culture, a history of the fishing industry and an example of a timber camp bunkhouse. A major center for sport fishing, opportunities abound for fishing from shore or aboard one of many charter boats. Visit the world's largest collection of totem poles in Saxman and Totem Bight State Park, just outside of town. Or glimpse Ketchikan's frontier days at Dolly's House, a former brothel located downtown.
Shaped by the staggering force of massive glaciers millions of years ago, Alaska's Inside Passage boasts wildlife-filled fjords and lush island scenery — habitat for bald eagles, sea lions, porpoises and whales. Its mountains are carpeted with majestic forests. Inside Passage Alaska is home to Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Indians whose history is reflected in towering totem poles. Russian settlers left a legacy of onion-domed churches gleaming with icons.
Ketchikan Southeast Alaska Discovery Center Museum Tour & Junior Ranger Program (4K)
We visited the Tongass National Park Museum Southeast Alaska Discovery Center in Ketchikan during our June 2017 Alaska Cruise. It is hard to imagine that there exists a rain forest in Southeast Alaska, but there is, and the museum provides a lot of educational info about the plants, animals & geography of the region. They even have a Tongass National Forest Junior Ranger program for kids. It was not easy to complete- you have to spend about an hour to help your child figure out answers to questions in a booklet. But the result is worth it if you have enough time in Ketchikan. Our Six Year-Old was swore in and got his batch, so it was definitely a nice memorable experience.
The entrance fee was $10 for adults, and free for kids.
What to do with the Tongass? (1976)
Excerpt from Alaska Review 2. In this segment, Alaska Review examines conflicting views of timbering in the Tongass National Forest. Those interviewed from Port Protection on Prince of Wales Island include Alan Stein [note that name is incorrectly spelled in program], Howard Bendleton, Ernie Watson, seven-year-old Jimmy Ramsey, and Ezra Stone. Other interviewees include Tongass Conservation Society member Malcolm Doiron of Ketchikan, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and Anchorage Sierra Club member Ted Whitesell, U.S. Senator from Alaska Mike Gravel, Ketchikan Pulp Company manager Don Finney, head of the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska John Sandor, Ketchikan District Timber Manager for the U.S. Forest Service Pete Mondich, and Alaska Department of Fish and Game habitat biologist Steve Haavig. (Color/Sound/2-inch quad videotape).
Airing from 1976 to 1987, Alaska Review was the first statewide public affairs television program in Alaska. The show was designed to explore public policy issues confronting Alaska, and to assist citizens in making decisions about the future of their land. Produced by Independent Public Television, Inc., (IPTV), the series eventually consisted of 16 one-hour shows, 46 half-hour shows, and one three-hour special broadcast. Funded through the Alaska Humanities Forum and State of Alaska, the series won multiple awards for public service and educational programming. IPTV dissolved in 1988. Videotapes for all finished productions and raw footage were later moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where they became housed with the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives department in the Rasmuson Library at UAF, shortly after the unit was founded in 1993. The Alaska Film Archives is currently seeking funding to preserve and digitize all of the original full interviews gathered in the making of the Alaska Review series. Copies of finished productions are also held by Alaska State Library Historical Collections in Juneau. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-4947 from the Alaska Review collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Film Archives is supported by Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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Keep Roadless in The Tongass
October 9, 2018 Webinar:
This summer we went north, to Alaska, the “last great frontier” to sit at the frontlines of climate change and begin our humble listening tour.
What makes the fabric of Alaska unique is its remoteness. Alaska is still a wild place. It is also the resource colony of America. When this distant land remains out of sight, it remains out of mind.
Alaska is a wild land under attack. It is a wild land whose struggle for land protection is also a struggle for indigenous sovereignty and human rights.
In 2001, the Roadless Rule was created to ensure nearly 50 million acres National Forests, an American and global ecological treasure, remain roadless.
In the lower 48, where roads are the veins of our modern existence, the concept of a roadless area might feel unfathomable. What does a road have to do with land conservation? Roads equal extraction. First a road is paved, and then the pillaging on behalf of industry begins. Someone, somewhere, made the decisions about the very roads we drive on today that led to the industrialization of all our lands. But Alaksa is still wild.
Home to precious wild salmon, bears, the Haida and tlingit peoples, The Tongass National Forest is Turtle Island’s largest and wildest national forest hosting Ancient Old Growth, icefields, glaciers, rivers, fjords on an archipelago system in Southeast Alaska. There is no forest standing in the world like this. If we destroy her, there will never be another again. This is our forest.
On Aug. 2, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it intends to create an “Alaska state-specific” version of the Roadless Rule, signaling a gift to a handful of timber companies that will mire the U.S. Forest Service in unprecedented, costly and needless controversy for years to come.
In early September, the For The Wild team headed to the first hearing for this Roadless Rule reform in Juneau, Alaska. The entire scene was surreal; the attack on these lands was open again. We were going to have to fight.
This webinar with For The Wild, Sitka Conservation Society and Southeast Alaska Conservation Council highlights imperative role of public comment periods and the attack our national treasure the Tongass National Forest.
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Tongass forest opening up the pristine wilderness (Alaska) - BBC News - 6th September 2019
Both sides of the argument in the climate change debate and opening up the Tongass forest in the US state of Alaska. From those that want to preserve it, to businesses that want to expand. The forest holds a huge amount of carbon, but the argument of economic growth and climate change over this area, is now in the spotlight.
Known by the U.S. Forest Service as the crown jewel, the Tongass stretches across 17 million acres of land and is Alaska's largest National Forest. Alaska Wilderness League describes the Tongass as one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world. 70,000 people inhabit the region.
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Ketchikan Walking Tour
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