Creek Street Ketchikan

Well today is our last port of adventure and the one that I've been looking forward to the most. I don't know if it was because of the potential to see bears and eagles or if I felt that Ketchikan was a water based town that I would connect with. We arrived at port around 11 AM, and our excursion was to go to the Rainforest Wildlife Sanctuary, …

... to the wet climate, including building the school on stilts and putting the playground underneath it. After the tour we visited creek street on our own: a public street that consists of a boardwalk along the creek that runs through the center of ...

... Shona gave us a ride back to the ship where we dropped off some camera gear and headed back out to see Ketchikan. We walked around and ended up at Creek Street, ending up in Creek Street, a very historic part of town. This area was built up on docks and ...

... . The best part of the town is the walk up beside the Creek, where Creek Street is built on stilts over the water.  Creek Street is the old red light district from the days when Ketchikan was a prospecting town.  Now, all the old brothels are ...

... a nice boardwalk with steps leading down to the beach where all the salmon were going up the creek. Creek Street is the most recognized spot in Ketchikan; lots of interesting shops.  Thousands of salmon coming up Ketchikan ...

... cable, Wi-Fi; 2) The Fish Pirate is a great place to eat, drink and watch some live entertainment; 3) Walking tour of Creek street highly recommended. Probably not worth paying $5 to go into Dolly'd House (an old brothel); 4) The salmon hatchery was ...

... time to do the Internet thing while in port. I went up and down the roads right along the port, up the infamous Creek Street - Ketchikan's former Red Light District so named for the creek that runs along its side which, as the old saying goes which was ...

... even opened, and on a rather grey day. There are a couple big tourist attractions in the Ketchikan area that we toured: 1. Creek Street - raised wooden street that used to be the infamous Red Light district of Ketchikan. Now it ...

... exibits about the local history and culture. After the rain eased up a bit headed down to the historical part of town (creek street) where a lot of the older town houses had been converted into tourist shops. Had a nice enough walk along the streets and ...

... walking the path at the foot of deer mountain. We found a view point that looked over the city and then stumbled across Creek street. Creek street lines the river and all the buildings were built in 1953. Most of the buildings are now gift shops so we ...

... Civic Centre on the hill which had a ring of Totem poles outside which Ketchikan has plenty of. Back in town we walked along Creek Street which has wooden houses on stilts round a nice waterway. Then we got back on board via a chocolate shop that smelled ...