Embark on a whale watching tour, visit the Mendenhall Glacier and ride the Mount Roberts Tramway in Juneau. These are the best things to do in Juneau, Alaska.

JUNEAU, Alaska - The week after Alaska's 90-day legislative session comes to a close, its capital seems to slow down and take a huge sigh of relief.

Juneau — a city of 32,164 — usually hosts around a million visitors during the summer season, according to Nancy Woizeschke, the president and CEO of the Juneau Convention and Tourism Bureau.

Glass-bottom kayaking, bear-watching excursions, the world’s newest and longest zip line. These are some of Alaska’s newer tourist attractions. Of course, travelers will still ooh and ahh as ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ...

The 2025 Travel Guide to Alaska highlights the state's natural beauty, wildlife, Indigenous culture, and vast wilderness, popular for cruising and outdoor activities.

Cruise ships are shown near downtown Juneau on June 7, 2023, along the Gastineau Channel, in Alaska. Becky Bohrer/AP Scott Keyes, travel expert and founder of Going.com, said that the challenges ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions ...

FILE - The face of the Mendenhall Glacier on Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. Voters in Alaska's capital city could decide in October whether to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays ...