Chilkoot River Haines

... the river just in time.  Stood on the bridge and watched the bear walk along the bank.  Finished our Chilkoot State Park drive along the river.  At the Fish Weir, the salmon are counted so it was interesting to see how many came up ...

... Fang which had been moved to the fairgrounds after the movie was filmed here. From here we drove back to the inlet where the Chilkoot River meets the Lynn Canal to watch the eagle's nest we found there.  We actually saw a few eagles here as several ...

... Highway Ferry Terminal to Chilkoot Lake. We got there around 5:30 PM and indeed the fishermen were lining the banks of the Chilkoot River; much to our dismay, the people standing around with their cameras tell us that the bears had just left about 30 ...

... pressing on. The day was winding down and we want to view the bears some more so we headed back through Haines and out to the Chilkoot River; upon arrival, we found few fishermen, no hordes of tourists with cameras, no traffic jams and no bears (the ...

... drove ten miles east of town to see Chilkoot State Park, which lies along a lake of the same name and borders the Chilkoot river. As we approached the park, we spotted fishermen standing on the shoreline or on rocks in the river fishing for ...

... back to the hotel to get my car and head up the highway to the Canadian border. The drive was spectacular. The Chilkoot River flowed majestically through the valley as the snow capped mountains loomed on each side. The turquoise waters of the river ...

... salmon supper. This road we are on is the only way into the Chilkoot State Park camping area and it runs parallel to the Chilkoot River where the state has a fish weir set up to conduct salmon surveys. A fish counter has an interesting job at this site ...

... town, we stopped at state recreation area where we were privileged to watch a mama grizzly and her two cubs fishing in the Chilkoot River. They were only about 50 yards from all the people (including us) watching them. Just incredible - they would catch ...

... stumbled upon a native art studio where we bought a screenprint of an orca done in the Aboriginal art style. We had heard the Chilkoot River was a good place to see Grizzly bears so we went for a drive along the river, where there were plenty of ...