Loggerville

See Loggerville, the unique logging camp village that floats! For much of the past century the floating lumberjack camp represented a life style peculiar to this area of the world and essential to the area's economic development. Lighthouse, Totems & Eagles is the only tour in all of Alaska that views such a lumberjack camp!

Your narrator will explain this distinctive style of living that is now fading from use along with the declining timber industry. Learn about the Tongass National Forest and the harvesting techniques and controversies. View the site of the now defunct Ketchikan Pulp Company, once a giant of the pulp mill industry. Learn of the failed sawmill and veneer plant, their present conditon and plans for the future. Discover the species of trees making up the world's largest temperate rain forest that comprises the 17 million acres of the Tongass.