Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Board a historic narrow-gauge train that conquered the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and ride through dizzying gorges, over sky-high trestles, and above the clouds to the U.S.–Canada border. A true bucket-list ride through living history and jaw-dropping scenery.
Lift off from Skagway or Haines by helicopter and land on the vast Juneau Icefield, where a team of genuine Iditarod-trained sled dogs is waiting. Mush across ancient glacial ice with a world-class musher at your side — utterly otherworldly and deeply Alaskan.
Claim an exclusive six-guest sailing charter through the deepest fjord in North America, scanning cobalt waters for humpback whales, orcas, Steller sea lions, and bald eagles while snow-capped peaks tower on every side. This is Alaska at its most raw and intimate.
Drift silently by raft through the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve — home to the world's largest concentration of bald eagles — then step into Haines for a guided introduction to living Tlingit culture at one of Southeast Alaska's most authentic Indigenous communities.
Walk the wooden boardwalks of America's best-preserved Gold Rush boomtown with a specialist local historian who brings 1898 Skagway blazingly to life — from Soapy Smith's crooked saloon empire to the desperate stampede that flooded these streets overnight.
Combine a guided alpine hike above Haines with extraordinary panoramas of Lynn Canal and the Chilkat Range, then descend to the legendary Haines Brewing Company — Alaska's most celebrated small-batch brewer — for a tasting flight beside a roaring fire.
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