Visitor guide
How to Visit Ketchikan in 2026: Berths, Ward Cove and Your Port Day
Which berth your ship uses, how Ward Cove changes the day, what is free to walk to, what charges at the door, and how long each kind of tour takes.
Ketchikan Travel Blog
Short answers to the questions you ask before a port day. How to visit, a walk round downtown, what the rain means, children, and a floatplane to Misty Fjords or a whale boat. To compare the tours in Ketchikan Alaska, start with the full list.
Start with the first if it is your first visit. Read the fourth if you are travelling as a family. Each post links the trips it talks about, so you can go from reading to booking without hunting. The longer planning pieces are in the guides.
Walking route
Downtown Ketchikan, Stop by Stop: Front Street to Creek Street and Thomas Basin
A walk from the berths along Front Street, over to Creek Street and the salmon ladder, up to the Totem Heritage Center and back by Thomas Basin.
Facts
Ketchikan Rain: What 150 Inches a Year Means for Your Port Day
The wettest and driest months, the record year of 1949, why every tour runs rain or shine, and what a wet day changes on the water and in the air.
With children
Ketchikan With Kids: Age Limits, Short Trips and What Works
The minimum ages and weight limits on the listings, the short trips that suit small children, and the ones to leave until they are older.
Comparison
Ketchikan: A Floatplane to Misty Fjords, or a Whale Boat?
The two big-ticket choices for one port day, side by side: time, price, what you see, what the weather can do, and which refunds if it goes wrong.
The practical answers sit on visiting Ketchikan and the FAQs, and every tour is compared on Ketchikan Alaska Tours.