Glacier Bay Highlights

This Glacier Bay Highlights cruise is a perfect shorter getaway cruise in the beautiful remote wilderness of Alaska's Inside Passage. Experience the true meaning of wonder in the soaring sanctuary of Glacier Bay National Park.

Cruise round trip from Juneau into the heart of the Inside Passage. Spend a full day in the nature wonderland of Glacier Bay with an onboard Park Ranger to help spot wildlife. Cruise Icy Strait in search of humpbacks and other marine mammals and delight in the charm of small ports Skagway and Haines. In the space of only a few days you'll build a lifetime of memories.

Itinerary

Day 1 - Juneau
Transfer to our hospitality area in preparation for your cruise. The convenient waterfront locale is a perfect base for exploring Alaska’s beautiful capital city, one of the most popular cruise ship ports in Alaska. Accessible only by air or sea, Juneau sits in a rainforest with the Mendenhall Glacier in its backyard. Some of the best optional excursions in Alaska are available in Juneau. Perhaps a flightseeing trip over the famous Juneau Ice Field, exploring the impressive Mendenhall Glacier. Board your ship to begin your cruise down the Gastineau Channel. D

Day 2 - Skagway and Haines
Cruise the deep and mysterious emerald-green waters of Lynn Canal, bordered by tall, rugged, snowcapped mountain peaks. Disembark in Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Your included tour is a drive and overview in a unique touring car. Tour guides dress in period costumes and are well versed in the raucous stories of this frontier settlement. Wooden sidewalks border historic buildings erected when this boomtown was jammed with thousands of folks lured by gold fever, all eager to ascend the foreboding and treacherous mountain trails to find the elusive mother-lode of gold.

With its strategic location along the Chilkat Trail, the area around Haines has thrived for hundreds of years as an important and integral trade center for the Chilkat band of Tlingit natives, famous for the intricately designed blankets woven with the hair of mountain goats. Haines is also renowned as home to the world’s largest autumnal congregation of bald eagles, with the Chilkat Bald Eagle Reserve located 18 miles from the town. BLD

Day 3 - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Designated a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, you'll enter a 3.3-million-acre nature wonderland with over 200 species of fish are found in Park waters, including all five species of Pacific salmon. About 220 species of birds have been recorded in the Park as well as large populations of land mammals. In the early morning we’ll pick up a Glacier Bay Park Forest Ranger and a local Tlingit Cultural Interpreter in Bartlett Cove. They will provide a comprehensive day of narrative sightseeing. Over 65 miles of pristine terrain and habitat have been revealed in Glacier Bay since its giant rivers of ice began dramatically retreating 200 years ago.

Approach Marble Islands and hurry outside to encounter a teeming multitude of seabirds like black-legged kittiwakes, murrelets and puffins, all swooping and swarming above the writhing, barking haul-out of Steller’s sea lions. We may encounter mountain goats on Gloomy Knob or watch brown and black bears foraging along the shoreline. Look for more harbor seals, sea otters and the humpback whales that call Glacier Bay their summer home. BLD

Day 4 - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Day 2 in Glacier Bay National Park. The Ranger will help you look for mountain goats, brown and black bears, moose, whales, Steller's sea lions and puffins. BLD

Day 5 - Juneau
Disembark in Juneau. If you have time before your flight we’ll give you ideas for exploring this interesting capital city, like a rainforest hike, the Mendenhall Glacier or glacier flightseeing. Transfer to the airport for your return flight home. B

What's Included:

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