This park on the coast of southeast Alaska offers snowy mountain peaks, narrow fjords, bays, harbors, scattered islands, a temperate rainforest of spruces and hemlocks, and numerous glaciers. Two ...

Background Situated in the southeast corner of Alaska, the Tongass is a temperate rainforest and the ancestral homeland of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples. The islands, fjords, glaciers, and ...

Ketchikan is surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, a temperate, mountainous rainforest that encompasses much of southeast Alaska, where landslides are a common risk. Last November, ...