Why choose this Ketchikan tour ?

Explore Ketchikan with a private tour, suitable for all ages, ensuring 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!

Destinations for Wildlife, Waterfalls, Rainforest, Coastal inner passage for marine life, Totem Poles, and friendly tour guides!

Why be another number on a large tourist bus, with us you are the star of the show, and all our attention is on your group, and the groups interests throughout the journey!

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!

Our goal is an experience that is fun, friendly, authentic, and not scripted!



Make the most of your Ketchikan adventure

What makes Private Tours for ease, comfort, flexibility, and relaxed pace! a unique experience ?

Experience the thrill of wildlife with the chance to see bears, bald eagles, salmon, and seals! This open grassy field and salmon filled creek, attracts a variety of wildlife to this location! Please note the diversity of wildlife will vary depending on time of season.

Capture stunning photos and videos of a beautiful waterfall just steps away from where you exit the van! Plus, step inside our lush rainforest for more spectacular views and vantage points of this waterfall!

Take a guided stroll through this Totem Park as we walk alongside magnificent indigenous totem poles. It’s rare to see a totem pole in person, but to understand the meaning and significance adds value. As your guide explains these fascinating stories and native culture. This location also has an active carving center, with the opportunity to see a carver at work and ask questions of their craft!

Step inside The Herring Bay Lumber Company Sawmill, which operated from 1956 to 2002! See the variation of milling machinery used and learn about an industry that once dominated Ketchikan. Feeling strong try lifting a 5.5ft long STIHL chainsaw from a log that was used at that time! Plus, have an amazing view of the estuary below and possibly see harbor seals, beavers, salmon, eagles and even bears!

Additional bonus this site also features Bifrost Blacksmithing, Alaskan made knives forged in Alaska, with locally sourced materials, like recycled steel for blades and Sitka black tailed deer antlers for handles. View this amazing collection and speak with the blacksmiths Jake and Joron and learn of their craft!

Explore our diverse tide pools along the coastal inner passage. Discover purple and orange starfish, crabs, sea anemones, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and more! With a bit of luck, we may even see a whale swimming through the passage. Variation of wildlife may vary depending on tide levels! When the season is right, pick and enjoy the wild edible berries in this location!

Tour Description & Additional Info:

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels


Options To Choose for Your Trip:

  • Group Rate up to 11 Guests
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    Pickup included
  • Bottled Water
  • Disposable Ponchos (in case of rain)
  • Local Guide
  • Air-conditioned Van (for those warm days)
  • Van equipped with seat belts

Not Included

  • $10 dollar entry fee per person at location that includes Totem Park, Sawmill, and blacksmith
  • 4th itinerary Ketchikan $10 per person

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Special Instructions:

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  • This Tour is Provided by Emerald Forest Tours.
  • Tour Timezone & Starts at America/Sitka.
  • Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
  • This Tour is Rated 5 Stars based on 88 valid reviews on VIATOR.
  • Minimum 1 Travelers is required to book.
  • Maximum 11 Travelers is accepted for booking.