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The best cruise ports in Alaska for seaplane tours are Juneau and Ketchikan.
Seaplanes are also called floatplanes.
You can get epic views of the Alaska wilderness by doing a seaplane tour in Alaska.
And you will find some amazing seaplane tours in Juneau and Ketchikan.
In Juneau, you can do a Juneau icefield seaplane tour.
In Ketchikan, you can do a Misty Fjords seaplane tour.
If you’ll be on land before or after your cruise, then you’ll also want to consider a Denali seaplane tour from Talkeetna.
If you will be doing a seaplane tour during your Alaska cruise, I highly recommend you do one with a landing!
It will make the experience that much more epic!
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The Juneau icefield seaplane tour you can do with or without a landing.
To do a seaplane tour in Juneau with a landing, you can make it one that takes you to the remote Taku Glacier Lodge in the Alaska wilderness for a salmon bake!
👆 You might be able to see the famous “blue ice” of Alaska during a seaplane tour of the Juneau icefield!
The Misty Fjords seaplane tour with Island Wings comes with a wilderness landing.
This means that there’s no specific landing pad or dock.
You will be literally landing in the nationally designated wild and remote Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness!
👆 That is the pilot tying up the seaplane to land! It really does feel wild and remote!
More below about the seaplane tours in Alaska that I did!
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Here are the best seaplane tours to do during your Alaska cruise!
Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness seaplane tour
I did a seaplane tour in Alaska from the Ketchikan cruise port to Misty Fjords National Monument.
The Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness is one way you can experience the largest national forest in the United States.
According to the US Forest Service:
Tongass National Forest is the nation’s largest national forest and covers most of Southeast Alaska.
You Alaska cruise will be mostly if not all in Southeast Alaska. If you have a cruise between Vancouver and Anchorage, then you’ll be traveling more than just Southeast Alaska!
According to the US Forest Service:
Tongass National Forest is the largest, intact coastal rainforest in America.
Misty Fjords is a piece of this treasure.
The US Forest Service also says that Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness is the “largest wilderness area” in Tongass National Forest.
The seaplane takes off near the Ketchikan cruise port, then flies over Tongass National Forest, and then soon you’ll be over the Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness.
You can see fjords (of course) and waterfalls (!) as you’re flying.
We then landed on a small island in Punchbowl Lake.
And when I say small… I mean SMALL!
👆 You’ll fly over the largest national forest in America of which Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness is a part of!
More about the Alaska seaplane tour:
Juneau icefield seaplane tour with Taku Lodge salmon bake (Taku Lodge Feast & Five-Glacier Seaplane)
I did a seaplane tour in Alaska from Juneau the cruise port that included a landing in what felt like remote Alaska.
It was a landing at the historic Taku Lodge (which currently only does day trips and not overnight stays), and it included a salmon bake Alaskan-style lunch.
There was time both before and after the meal to walk around, which I did.
I thought it was a nice quiet leisurely walk through the forest.
Most people stayed around the lodge. If you do the Taku Lodge excursion, I recommend asking how much time you have before food, and then walking around!
From Taku Lodge, you can see the glacier called Hole-in-the-Wall Glacier.
Flying from Juneau, you will get epic views of Alaska on your way to Taku Lodge and on the way back too!
I saw glaciers and blue ice from above!
The tour is advertised as a Juneau icefield seaplane tour, so you will be flying over and seeing part of the massive Juneau icefield with lots of glaciers.
See more about the Alaska seaplane tour
More flightseeing tours in Alaska
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What I did to give you more ideas for your Alaska cruise:
HAPPY FLYING OVER ALASKA IN A SEA PLANE!
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