Sightseeing
History BuffCreek Street
No admission feeWalk a wooden boardwalk on pilings over Ketchikan Creek, lined with shops, museums and houses from the town's red-light era.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Sightseeing
Totem Bight State Historical Park
A small Alaska state park north of Ketchikan with a rebuilt clan house and carved totem poles.
Ketchikan, AK
About Totem Bight State Historical Park
This state historical park sits on the coast north of Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska. In the late 1930s, a federal forestry program hired skilled Native carvers to restore weathered cedar poles left in the forest and to make copies of them. Work on a model village began at the site, which was then called Mud Bight. Its community house and about fifteen poles were in place before wartime work slowed the project. The land later passed to the state, and the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors can see the clan house, its carved posts and painted front, and a set of poles that explain Tlingit and Haida stories, family groups, and traditional art.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to Totem Bight State Historical Park, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
7.4 mi awayMore like this
- Museums
Totem Heritage Center
Under $25Ketchikan museum with original 19th-century totem poles and hands-on Native arts programs.
7.6 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
- Sports & OutdoorsOutdoor Adventure
Misty Fjords National Monument
No admission feeTour a wilderness of sea cliffs, fjords and rainforest east of Ketchikan by floatplane, boat or kayak.
48 mi awaySwitch it up: Sports & Outdoors
