Category: Alaska

El Capitan Cave, or El Cap as the locals call it, is the largest cave in Alaska and the first cave in Southeast Alaska where fossil bones were discovered, dating back more than 12,000 years. During the summer, visitors can take advantage of a free[…]

Southeast Alaska is home to the Tongass National Forest, which is the largest national forest in the whole country. There are plenty of opportunities to see eagles, bears, spawning salmon, as well as  breathtaking panoramas of “wild” Alaska in the Tongass, which takes up much[…]

Located in the Tongass National Forest and managed by the United States Forest Service, the breathtaking Misty Fjords National Monument is a national monument and wilderness area. Located roughly 40 miles east of Ketchikan, Misty Fjords is a stunning landscape of sea cliffs, steep fjords,[…]

Southeast Alaska is home to six narrows, including the Wrangell Narrows. The Narrows are formed by a 35-kilometer-long waterway between Mitkof Island and Kupreanof Island in Southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago. Petersburg sits at the Narrows’ northernmost point. Both Frederick Sound and Sumner Strait can be[…]

Thomas Bay is in the southeast corner of Alaska. The Baird Glacier empties into Thomas Bay, which is located to the northeast of Petersburg, Alaska. There are two things that make Thomas Bay, Alaska, famous, and neither of them is positive. Thomas Bay is most[…]

Towards the southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska, you’ll find Behm Canal, a natural channel in the Alexander Archipelago. Beautiful landscape, hot springs, bears, ducks, marine creatures, berry picking, wilderness camping, Misty Fjords, seclusion, and an old-growth forest are just some of the trip highlights. The canal[…]

About 30 miles off the Alaska Peninsula and 158 miles across the Gulf of Alaska from Homer, Alaska, is the huge group of islands known as the Kodiak Island Archipelago. The total land area of this archipelago is about the same size as Connecticut. Kodiak[…]

Homer is located on the Kachemak Bay shore in the southwestern corner of the Kenai Peninsula. It is nestled between steep bluffs to the north and Kachemak Bay to the south. The Homer Spit, a gravel bar that juts out into the bay and is[…]

The Puget Sound region encompasses Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding area about west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains in the U.S. state of Washington. The state capital, Seattle, is situated between Elliot Bay and Lake Washington[…]

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness consists of two deep and narrow fjords: Tracy Arm and Endicott Arm. One quarter of both fjords’ areas are covered in ice, and they’re both longer than 30 miles. There is a lot of ice floating around in the fjords during[…]

Ford’s Terror, located 60 miles southeast of Juneau in Alaska’s Inside Passage, is a tremendously steep and narrow fjord. The Tracy Arm-Terror Ford’s Wilderness is where you’ll find it. Off Holkham Bay and near Stephens Passage in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, it is about 45[…]

The Stephens Passage is a narrow waterway that separates the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska from the rest of the state. A straight line through Southeast Alaska in a landscape with relatively few straight lines, Stephens Passage is like the best shortcut[…]