All things Ketchikan on the blog!
- Best things to do in Ketchikan
- Top 10 things to do in Ketchikan
- totem poles
- Easy Ketchikan walks
- Ketchikan cruise port map + where cruise ships dock
- NCL cruise tips: Ward Cove
- Read Ketchikan tour reviews at partner website Viator!
- Here are fun tours in Ketchikan you must consider that people have loved:
- Cheap(er) and easy excursion: Ketchikan walking tour with Alaskan huskies
- Deadliest Catch fisherman’s tour: You will be on a boat that is as seen on TV and one of Ketchikan’s most popular things to do. (Don’t worry, you won’t be sailing to the rough Bering Sea that’s seen on TV ðĪŠ)
- Ride to the end of Ketchkan’s road to nowhere: electric bike + rainforest hiking tour
- Highlights and hidden gems small group tour: Ketchikan Alaska in a ’67 VW van tour
- What to pack
- Poncho or rain jacket?
- Ketchikan is one of the rainiest places! Are there days where it doesn’t rain? Yes. Is it more likely that it will rain when you are there? Yes!
- Best waterproof shoes for Alaska
- What to wear in Alaska (layers!)
- Puffer jacket
- Poncho or rain jacket?
- Best Ketchikan excursions
- Epic Alaska excursions
- Epic seaplane tours in Alaska
- Alaska food excursions
- rainforest hiking tours
- snorkeling tour
- lighthouse tour (+ eagles and totem poles)
- Individual Ketchikan activities (free!)
- salmon ladder
- Rainbird Trail (rainforest hike!)
- eagle totem park
- Alaska cruise ports (including Ketchikan!)
- Ketchikan by season
Oh hi! ð That’s me on an excursion in Ketchikan! ð
Ketchikan is the amazing cruise port where you can do a seaplane tour with a wilderness landing in a national forest, walk by lots of totem poles, go snorkeling in Alaska (what?!?!?!ðĪĢ), and see salmon jumping up the ladder!
I have been to Ketchikan 5 times. See my top picks for things to do in Ketchikan from a cruise ship!
Check the homepage on the blog for the beginner’s guide to Alaska cruises!
More cruise ports: Juneau | Skagway | Icy Strait Point | Sitka | Victoria | Vancouver | Seattle
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Plan more of your Alaska cruise
Ketchikan | Juneau | Skagway | Icy Strait Point | Sitka | Seattle | Vancouver
Plan more of your Alaska cruise
Ketchikan | Juneau | Skagway | Icy Strait Point | Sitka | Seattle | Vancouver
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More Alaska travel planning tips you need to know!
Juneau | Ketchikan | Skagway | Icy Strait Point | Sitka | Seattle | Vancouver
Things you might need for a day in Alaska on land or at sea!
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For more ideas, do a search for Alaska cruise clothes!
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Pinterest tip: Share the travel ideas you find on pinterest with your travel partners! Go to your Alaska cruise travel board, and look for the little + person icon! Or, you can go to "edit board" and "invite" your travel partners as a "collaborator"! This way you can all add pins to one shared board and you can all easily see what ideas others have found!
More Alaska travel planning tips you need to know!
Juneau | Ketchikan | Skagway | Icy Strait Point | Sitka | Seattle | Vancouver
Things you might need for a day in Alaska on land or at sea!
Read the reviews on Amazon! I'm an Amazon Associate.*
- Rain poncho for a day out and about
- Review from cruise ship passenger: "Absolutely loved having these for our Alaska excursions from the cruise ship! Nice, lightweight, easily packable... easy to put on over our backpacks... Also, highly breathable vs the disposable plastic ones. Ours held up to the windy conditions too!..."
- Read the full review.
- Or... cheap ponchos just in case
- merrell waterproof shoes for women (one of the best shoe brands for the outdoors)
- merrell shoes for men
- travel binoculars that come with a phone adapter designed to allow you to take pictures through the binoculars with your phone. (Test out the binoculars and phone adapter at home before your cruise so you won't be wasting time figuring out when you want to be actually looking for wildlife!)
- for higher quality ones, as recommended in cruise facebook groups by people in-the-know, look at vortex diamondback binoculars
- Packable lightweight puffer jacket (aka travel-friendly)
- For women: puffer jacket | for men: puffer jacket
- Water resistant hiking clothes for Alaska
- for women: hiking pants | for men: hiking pants
For more ideas, do a search for Alaska cruise clothes!
*I may earn a commission.
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Pinterest tip: Share the travel ideas you find on pinterest with your travel partners! Go to your Alaska cruise travel board, and look for the little + person icon! Or, you can go to "edit board" and "invite" your travel partners as a "collaborator"! This way you can all add pins to one shared board and you can all easily see what ideas others have found!