Alaska - Juneau & the Southeast (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Southeast Alaska is so unAlaska. The Southern Panhandle is a slender, long rainforest that stretches 540 miles from Icy Bay south to Portland Canal and is filled with ice-blue glaciers, rugged snowcapped mountains, towering Sitka spruce and a thousand islands known as the Alexander Archipelago. Each community here has its own history and character: from Norwegian-influenced Petersburg to Russian-tinted Sitka. You can feel the gold fever in Skagway and see a dozen glaciers near Juneau. Each town is unique and none of them are connected to each other by road. Jump on the state ferry or book a cruise and discover the Southeast.

Alaska - Juneau & the Southeast (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Follow the Klondike gold rush by hiking Skagway’s Chilkoot Trail.
Head deep into Glacier Bay National Park to see seals, sea lions and glaciers calving icebergs the size of small houses
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Zipline down a mountain and spending the afternoon viewing bears at Ketchikan’s Herring Creek
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Strap on crampons and hike across the icy blue world of Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier

Coverage includes: Southern Panhandle, Ketchikan and around Ketchikan, Misty Fiords National Monument, Prince Of Wales Island, Wrangell & Around, Petersburg, Northern Panhandle, Sitka, Juneau and around, Admiralty Island & Pack Creek, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve and Haines.