Inside Passage

Specializing in private tours of Ketchikan suitable for all ages! A private tour ensures your family and friends are the only guests in the tour van! Offering ease, comfort, flexibility, and a relaxed pace! Explore at your own pace, without rigid time constraints at each stop! Your group can choose to spend as much or little time at each location, allowing you to focus on areas of greater interest! Experience the wild landscapes and culture of Ketchikan, Alaska. Encounter wildlife in their natural habitat, with opportunities to see bears, bald eagles, salmon, and seals. Explore the tide pools along the Inside Passage for a variety of marine life such as starfish, sea anemones, crabs, sea urchins and more. Immerse yourself in the beauty of a breathtaking waterfall steps away from where you exit the van! Explore the lush rainforest for more awe-inspiring views of this natural wonder! This adventure includes a visit to a Totem Park, Blacksmith, and retired Lumber Sawmill, providing a variation of Ketchikan’s history. Your guide delivers a fun and entertaining journey of these locations. With extra care and attention from your guide on this private tour, can be especially helpful with those traveling with young children, elderly relatives, those with medical conditions, special needs or mobility challenges! It is important to note that while we cannot guarantee specific wildlife sightings, we make every effort to provide our guests with the best opportunities to observe the diverse wildlife that Ketchikan has to offer. Please Note: A $10 entry fee per person grants access to Totem Park, Lumber Sawmill, and Blacksmith, which is all located on the same site. This fee is not included in the tour price.

You're the Captain Now! We'll meet our guests at Ketchikan's cruise ship docks and provide transportation to our launch site out of Salmon Falls Lodge in the protected waterways of Clover Passage. From there you can hop aboard our military grade inflatable fast boats for a guided excursion on the Pacific Ocean in Alaska’s Inside Passage! Take turns at the tiller driving or hang on and enjoy the ride. There are many tours here that allow you to just ride along, this isn’t one of them. Small groups of up to 3 inflatable fast boats follow a guide boat through the jagged coastline islands of Southeast Alaska in search of bald eagles nests, resident seals and sea lions, an immense array of inter tidal creatures and, everyone’s favorite, bubble-net feeding humpback whales! Clover Pass features calmer waters and often better weather than tours running in downtown Ketchikan so we love getting you out of town and away from the crowds. We provide transportation back to your original meeting point at the end of your adventure with us.

Travel by van from Juneau to a motorboat and cruise along the Inside Passage to the richest humpback whale feeding ground in Alaska at the Channel Islands State Marine Park. Paddle through the park with with a kayaking guide using high-quality gear. Meet your guide in Juneau or be picked up at your hotel in the Mendenhall Valley and board a climate-controlled van for the transfer to the 6-passenger motorboat. Embark on a thrilling journey in the Inside Passage to before arriving at the Channel Islands State Marine Park.  Land on a remote beach where your guide will introduce you to your kayaks and provide you with a basic kayaking tutorial which makes this tour suitable for beginners. Tuck into a hearty snack before taking off on your adventure. Glide across the sea in double kayaks on a quest for a more intimate wildlife viewing opportunity, as snow-capped peaks and flowing glaciers dominate the distant Southeastern Alaskan landscape. Search for humpback whales, orcas, sea lions, porpoises, an array of bird species, and seals. The Channel Islands are a fantastic habitat for spotting multitudes of marine life. Your kayak guide and boat captain will help you spot wildlife while sharing their local knowledge of the area.