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Top Questions Visitors Ask About Juneau: Your Essential FAQ Guide for 2025

Planning a trip to Juneau? You’re not alone—tens of thousands of independent travelers, cruise guests, and adventure-seekers arrive each year with similar questions about how

Sadly, five individuals died this summer in the Tongass National Forest around Juneau. Their deaths provide a stark reminder of how dangerous Alaska’s stunning outdoors can be.

The Tongass is our closest neighbor, a forested mountain wall

Southeast Alaska is home to five salmon species, including chum, otherwise known as keta or dog salmon. Chum are fun to catch and smoke up well. They are also great for canning.

One of Juneau’s little mysteries, though, is why chum continue to swim

Remember old movies that had a July 4th celebration as part of the story? Lots of red, white, and blue bunting, flags everywhere, kids running after floats to pick up candy, bands, the works? You can have all that and more when you’re in Juneau,

Why Juneau is the Best Place to Beat the Heat

Plan Your Alaska Coolcation and Escape the Summer Heat

Looking for a cool summer vacation? Juneau, Alaska is the perfect escape from the sweltering temperatures found across the Lower 48. Surrounded by

The Juneau Maritime Festival is one of the city’s signature annual events, celebrating Alaska’s rich maritime heritage, thriving seafood industry, and coastal culture. Held in the heart of downtown Juneau, this lively festival brings together locals

NOTICE TO ALL TRAVELERS HEADED TO JUNEAU SUMMER 2025

Please be advised that the recent federal cuts have trimmed staff at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center (MGVC) to a single person. We don’t know at this time whether the visitors center or the

It’s the time of year that lists begin to emerge that summarize this year, but Travel Lemming is looking ahead and so is Travel Juneau! Travel Lemming, a US-based online travel publication with more than 10 million yearly readers, today announced its

There comes a turning point in the weather where you feel a hint of the coming winter as the days turn to autumn. Even though this summer was cool and rainy, a morning arrived and Juneauites woke up and we all knew instinctively that summer was over.

One of the more frequent questions from summer visitors after, “What is there to do here?” is, “What do you do all winter?”

The answer? SO MUCH! When the summer tourism season finally winds down, contrary to popular belief, things just get rolling in