Tents and sleeping bags dot the deck of the MV Columbia, a commuter ferry run by the state of Alaska up and down the 3,500-mile Alaska Marine Highway. Hardy riders can sleep in the open air ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- How do you pitch a tent on an Alaska ferry? You pack Gorilla or Duck tape. Without stakes to pound, very sticky tape is necessary to secure your tent to the deck floor while ...

Alaska is a big place, ... On the ferry, though, he was back in vacation mode, sleeping in a tent on the deck of the ferry and spending his days enjoying the view.

Wrangell, Alaska. How do you pitch a tent on an Alaska ferry? You pack Gorilla or Duck tape. Without stakes to pound, very sticky tape is necessary to secure your tent to the deck floor while the ...

Pitch your tent on deck. Philip A. Dwyer/Bellingham Herald/AP/File The state-run Alaska ferry Kennicott, seen here new in 1998, is smaller than cruise ships bringing over a million tourists to ...

Alaska TourismAn Alaska ferry cruises the Inside Passage. ... Sharon Sherk, a teacher in her 40s, had just set up her tent on the boat deck of the Columbia as the ship departed Bellingham.

Tents fill a passenger deck of the Columbia as it departs Bellingham, Washington, on July 14. Such “campouts” are part of the most notorious aspects of the nearly 50-year-old Alaska Marine ...

The Alaska Ferry departs from and returns to the Lower 48 from Fairhaven, ... But the pros know you use those early morning hours to get settled in a modest state room or pitch a tent on the deck.