Guides
Ketchikan Guides
Practical how-to articles for your port call.
Written and reviewed by our editor, Greg Peters. Confirm hours, prices and availability with the operator before you go.
Ketchikan Cruise Port Guide
The four downtown berths and Ward Cove, the free shuttle, visitor centers and restrooms, busy days and getting back on board.
Seeing Misty Fjords from Ketchikan
Floatplane or catamaran: how the top-rated Misty Fjords trips compare on time, price, lake landings and ratings.
Ketchikan's Totem Parks Compared
The Totem Heritage Center, Saxman, Totem Bight and Potlatch: what each holds, how to get there and the tours that visit them.
Rainy-Day Ketchikan: What to Do Indoors
Museums, totem poles under a roof, chowder, galleries and tours that run whatever the weather, in a town that gets about 150 inches of rain a year.
A printable Ketchikan plan for your hours ashore
Leave your email and you’ll go right to a day plan timed to your ship’s arrival and departure, ready to print with the map. We write once a month about berths, busy days and what’s open.