Alaska Native Cultural and Wildlife Tour (Totem Bight)

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By Greg Peters, editor · Updated October 2026 · Ratings checked October 18, 2026

#17 Popular · ranked 17 of 18 Ketchikan excursions

An Alaska Native-owned outfit takes up to 11 people by van to Totem Bight State Historical Park for about 40 minutes among its poles and clan house, then to the salmon ladder, Herring Cove for possible bears and eagles, and a quick pass of Creek Street. Guides share their own Tlingit or Haida background along the way.

Tour details

OperatorClan House Tours

TypeCulture

How longAbout 3 hours

SeasonSummer cruise season; dates not stated on the pages checked

Good forTravelers who want Totem Bight with Native guides. Must get in and out of a transit van; not wheelchair accessible; not for back or heart problems.

Rating4.5 / 5 from 366 reviewsViator (Viator and Tripadvisor reviews combined), checked October 18, 2026

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Times and policies from viator.com, tripadvisor.com, getyourguide.com, checked October 18, 2026. They change; the booking page has the final word.

Best-rated option found that stops at Totem Bight; ratings are good rather than outstanding. The Viator page shows a garbled duration ('+113 hours'); 3 hours is from Tripadvisor and GetYourGuide. Meets at the Rain Gauge outside the Visitors Bureau on Berth 2.

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Map: where this excursion meets

The 3D map shows the walk here from Berth 2. Expand it to pick your dock and explore.

3D walking map with times →

Map: USGS elevation; streets and buildings © OpenStreetMap contributors.

How we ranked it

On October 18, 2026, we pulled up each Ketchikan tour on Viator, Tripadvisor and GetYourGuide and wrote down its star rating and review count for that specific product, ignoring operator-wide totals. Tripadvisor reviews are folded into Viator's numbers, so a tour counts once from that pair, with GetYourGuide kept separate. The list is split into rating bands, and inside each band the tours with the most reviews come first; that keeps a brand-new trip with a few perfect scores from leapfrogging one with a long track record. Several Misty Fjords and Saxman products showed as unavailable for the rest of 2026 on the day we checked, which looks like the season ending. Reviews live on the booking sites, and our links go straight to them. Nobody paid for a spot on this list.

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