When planning your Alaskan cruise, make sure you include in your itinerary of Juneau. Juneau offers amazing shore excursions for cruise vacationers. These are the things fifteen you do not want to miss.

Mendenhall Glacier

No Alaskan cruise is complete without a visit to Mendenhall Glacier. Capture memories on the Road Point of photos. To get to a high, self-guided walking trails on the Tongass National Forest. And be sure to stop by the Visitors Center Mendenhall Glacier.

SALMON HATCHERY

The Macaulay Hatchery produces over 150 million salmon a year. From May to June can be fed immature salmon fry. A Salmon!

SALMON BAKE

Fine dining is one of the true joys of any cruise vacation, but you have to leave of Bake at Salmon Creek.

UNDERGROUND JUNEAU GOLD

Sometimes the shore excursions are not the best on earth, but beneath it. The Alaska Gastineau Mill was the largest gold producer in the world works. Now you can relive the feverish days of yore. Explore the transport tunnel, learn techniques of mining, and bread gold.

GLACIER GARDENS

Dazzling plants, trees and flower gardens await you at Los Glaciares. Wend your way along the paths of garden and panoramic views of the Mendenhall Valley, Douglas Island, Gastineau Channel, and the Chilkat Mountains. Remember to bring your camera!

Alaska State MUSEUM

Discover the history, art and culture of Alaska. Visit a replica of a Tlingit clan house and see a life size tree nesting eagle.

ALASKAN BREWING COMPANY

Take a guided tour of the brewery and a tasting of their beers and the beers season.

MOUNT ROBERTS TRAMWAY

An amazing journey awaits us in the Mount Roberts Tramway. Rising sea level to 1,800 meters. The look on stays through most of fjords and mountains, one of the best views in all of Alaska.

Dog Sled SUMMER CAMP

Pet the puppies and learn all about the Iditarod at Camp Creek Valley Sheep dog. Climb aboard a sleigh and learn how to be an Iditarod musher, including how to care a team of highly trained huskies.

Jungle Zipline

Glide over the Sitka spruce pine on high voltage cables from one platform to the 6,000-meter long air network. Admire the spectacular views of Bullion Creek and Juneau magnificent scenery as you descend into the forest canopy and suspension bridges cross in His way to the base camp below.

STEAMBOAT CRUISE

Juneau harbor cruise in the wood a single-passenger ship equipped. Hear tales the heyday of gold mining in Alaska Stephens Passage, a feeding ground for the summer, humpback whales. You can also find the killer whales, Stellar sea lions, the comfort of your window seat, you can take aerial photos of the Norris, Taku, Hole-in-the Twin Wall, and East and West – glaciers.

Helicopter Tour

Taking a helicopter to the Juneau ice field allows you to set one of the glaciers and explore on foot the melting ice formations and pools.

GLACIER TREK

After a thrilling helicopter ride, you land on a former Icescape and let your driver guide you through the glacial streams, cliffs and cracks. On the way back, flying across Gastineau Channel to see famous Alaska gold mines.Â

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David Wisehart is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter living in Southern California. He blogs as The Grammar Guy at http://www.grammar-guy.com/

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