Designed for guests who want to understand Alaska, not just see it, this guided walking experience offers a thoughtful introduction to Southeast Alaska Native culture. With seven interpretive stops, including six intricately carved totem poles, this tour shares the stories, values, and traditions that connect Alaska Native peoples to the land. It is ideal for travelers seeking cultural insight and a deeper sense of place.

Your experience begins along an outdoor heritage trail, where an Alaska Native guide leads you through clan history, ancestral teachings, and the powerful relationship between people and their environment. Through storytelling grounded in lived experience, your guide explains how climate, natural resources, and daily survival shaped traditional life and cultural values. Each guide brings their own background to the tour and may be a dancer, storyteller, artist, carver, or tradition bearer, offering a personal and authentic perspective at every stop.

The walking pace is relaxed and unhurried, allowing plenty of time to listen, reflect, and ask questions as you move between interpretive points.

Following the guided walk, enjoy a $30 meal credit at the Mount Roberts Tramway restaurant. A variety of vegetarian, gluten-free, and non-seafood options are available, with only select premium items exceeding the credit amount.

Your tour also includes round-trip access on the Mount Roberts Tramway, giving you the flexibility to ride at your own pace and take in sweeping mountain views, explore shops, and enjoy visitor facilities at the summit.

Please Note: The Mount Roberts Tramway has been temporarily closed since April 30, 2026, due to ongoing maintenance. The tram and meal components are currently unavailable; however, the guided cultural walking experience will continue as scheduled. Guides may be dancers, storytellers, artists, carvers, or tradition bearers; however, organized performances are not guaranteed and vary by guide. Updates regarding the tram's reopening will be shared as they become available.

Ketchikan, Alaska, is a small city that directly faces the famous Inside Passage, known as a popular cruise destination. It is the state's south-eastern-most town and is known for its many Native American totem poles on display throughout the vicinity. You can experience snow capped mountains, salmon spawning streams, waterfalls and rich wildlife including bald eagles and black bears.

Your day of discovery into this charming city starts with a short Ketchikan city tour where you will drive by some of the area's many salmon canneries and learn about the salmon industry. From town you will make your way to the Eagle Point Education Center. Here you will have the opportunity to see eagles in their natural setting and see a native carver working on a totem pole. While here you will also be provided the opportunity to try delicious, local salmon samples.

After eagle point you will travel to Saxman Native village where you will be greeted by the largest collection of standing totems in one location. Walk through the 25 replicas of original Native Alaskan totem poles and observe the artistic carvings revealing stories of the people and legends of the past.

From here continue to scenic Rotary Beach. Make a brief stop to check for whales and other wildlife that may be spotted in the area. This beach is popular with the locals and it's easy to see why with the great opportunities to see humpback and orca whales as they migrate through Nicolas Passage.

After that it's off to Herring Cove for an excellent chance to view the areas majestic bald eagles, seals, heron and even bears at times, not to mention thousands of salmon returning to the place of their birth upstream!

Your tour will stop last at one of the area's cascading and beautiful waterfalls for picture opportunities before your comfortable return trip back to the pier area and your ship.

Your visit to Ketchikan will most certainly be one to remember when you book this tour. For those who love nature and animals you don't want to miss out, book now!

Please Note: Restrooms available at Rotary Beach, Saxman Village and Herring Cove. Also, please be advised wildlife sightings cannot be guaranteed.