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Whittier is one of Alaska's genuine oddities - a tiny town of just over 200 people, connected to the outside world by a single tunnel (the longest combined road and rail tunnel in North America) that operates on an alternating schedule. It's not a...

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7:30AM – 2:00PM · 6hr 30min

Valdez sits at the head of a fjord that most people only know as the site of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill - but the town itself has recovered, and what remains is one of the most scenically dramatic settings in Alaska. Prince William Sound surr...

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11:00AM – 4:00PM · 5hr

The largest tidewater glacier in North America doesn't need much introduction - but no description prepares you for the reality of it. Standing on deck as the ship moves into position, the ice face fills your entire field of vision: 76 feet tall a...

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12:00PM – 9:00PM · 9hr

Haines is the rare Alaska port that feels genuinely lived-in - not curated for cruise passengers, but real. Surrounded by the Chilkat Mountains on one side and the longest, deepest fjord in North America on the other, it's a town with a frontier p...

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8:00AM – 6:00PM · 10hr

Icy Strait Point sits just outside the native Tlingit village of Hoonah, and it has a legitimately interesting origin story - a restored 1930s salmon cannery that now serves as the port's cultural and culinary hub. The whale watching here is excep...

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7:00AM – 2:00PM · 7hr

Sitka has a layered history that most Alaska ports don't - it was the capital of Russian America before the United States purchased Alaska in 1867, and that colonial past is visible everywhere, from the onion-domed St. Michael's Cathedral to the R...

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8:00AM – 6:00PM · 10hr

Klawock is the kind of place that rewards the traveler who's paying attention. Located on Prince of Wales Island - the third-largest island in the United States, largely unknown outside Alaska - it's home to the largest collection of authentic tot...

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8:00AM – 10:00PM · 14hr

Ketchikan is Alaska's first impression for most cruise passengers, and it delivers. The largest collection of standing totem poles in the world is here, the rainforest comes right down to the water's edge, and the town's rowdy fishing-and-logging ...

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6:00AM – 6:00PM · 12hr

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9:00AM – 8:00PM · 11hr

Nanaimo is Vancouver Island's second city - unpretentious, genuinely welcoming, and underrated in the way that places are when they sit in the shadow of somewhere more famous. The waterfront is walkable and lovely, the Old City Quarter has a good ...

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8:00AM – 11:00PM · 15hr

Victoria earns its reputation as one of the most livable cities in Canada - and one of the most enjoyable cruise ports in the Pacific Northwest. The Inner Harbour is the social and cultural center of the city, buzzing in summer with visiting yacht...

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7:00AM

Vancouver is the kind of city that disembarkation day almost feels like a gift rather than an ending. The setting - mountains behind, ocean in front, Stanley Park jutting into the harbor - is legitimately one of the most beautiful urban environmen...

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