Alaska Ferry Question
Good Day We are planning on going to Alaska and the northwest for about six months next year. The first leg of the trip is the ferry from Bellingham, WA to Ketchikan, AK. What should we do with our c...
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We have done both the Skagway to Bellingham run and the Prince Rupert to Skagway route. Both are very nice trips. The southern end of the route to Bellingham, near the Dixon Entrance, can be a bit rough at times and it gets too far from shore to see much, but once it gets close to Cambell River and runs inside along the islands, the scenery is great. This was on the southern end of the Bellingham run. The closest we got to any of the light houses.
I wouldn't do the long run every time, as we love the drive over to Prince Rupert. Last trip there, we only spent 2 or 3 nights in PR and could easily have stayed a week or more. I never realized it was such a major shipping port for coal and grain to Asia, from Canada. Lots of beautiful buildings, float planes to watch, ocean going ships anchored out, waiting their turns to load, some great museums, a very diverse multicultural population, excellent places to eat and we found the one commercial campground, in town, to be a comfortable place to stay.
I wouldn't do the long run every time, as we love the drive over to Prince Rupert. Last trip there, we only spent 2 or 3 nights in PR and could easily have stayed a week or more. I never realized it was such a major shipping port for coal and grain to Asia, from Canada. Lots of beautiful buildings, float planes to watch, ocean going ships anchored out, waiting their turns to load, some great museums, a very diverse multicultural population, excellent places to eat and we found the one commercial campground, in town, to be a comfortable place to stay.
