3 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
11 people
English
We specialize in private tours of Ketchikan suitable for all ages, ensuring your family and friends are the only guests in the tour van! Offering ease, comfort, flexibility, and a relaxed pace! With destinations for Wildlife, Waterfalls, Marine life, Rainforest, Totem Poles, a Retired Sawmill, Bifrost Blacksmithing, and friendly local tour guides! Our private tours allow you to explore at your own pace, without rigid time constraints at each stop! Your group can choose to spend as much or little time at each location, allowing you to focus on areas of greater interest! With extra care and attention from your guide on this private tour, can be especially helpful with those traveling with young children, elderly relatives, those with medical conditions, special needs or mobility challenges! Our goal is an experience that is fun, friendly, authentic, and not scripted!
Experience the thrill of wildlife with the chance to see bears, bald eagles, salmon, and seals! This open grassy field and salmon filled creek, attracts a variety of wildlife to this location! Please note the diversity of wildlife will vary depending on time of season.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Capture stunning photos and videos of a beautiful waterfall just steps away from where you exit the van! Plus, step inside our lush rainforest for more spectacular views and vantage points of this waterfall! Feeling extra adventurous while at the waterfall, ask your guide to take your group on a hike inside the rainforest alongside the waterfall, just 10 minutes one way to a second stunning waterfall! (The hike is added option that is decided by your group at that time)
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Take a guided stroll through this Totem Park as we walk alongside magnificent indigenous totem poles. It’s rare to see a totem pole in person, but to understand the meaning and significance adds value. As your guide explains these fascinating stories and native culture. This location also has an active carving center, with the opportunity to see a carver at work and ask questions of their craft!
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Step inside The Herring Bay Lumber Company Sawmill, which operated from 1956 to 2002! See the variation of milling machinery used and learn about an industry that once dominated Ketchikan. Feeling strong try lifting a 5.5ft long STIHL chainsaw from a log that was used at that time! Plus, have an amazing view of the estuary below and possibly see harbor seals, beavers, salmon, eagles and even bears!
Additional bonus this site also features Bifrost Blacksmithing, Alaskan made knives forged in Alaska, with locally sourced materials, like recycled steel for blades and Sitka black tailed deer antlers for handles. View this amazing collection and speak with the blacksmiths Jake and Joron and learn of their craft!
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Explore our diverse tide pools along the coastal inner passage. Discover purple and orange starfish, crabs, sea anemones, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and more! With a bit of luck, we may even see a whale swimming through the passage. Variation of wildlife may vary depending on tide levels! When the season is right, pick and enjoy the wild edible berries in this location!
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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