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Yeah, I walked around Ketchikan once for for a few hours when the ferry stopped there. I wasn't too impressed. Wikipedia says "small" cruise ships visit Petersburg, and it has "very few of the crowds or tourist peaks experienced by the neighboring communities of Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan...

In Juneau they get the annual invasion of Borg cubes... er, I mean cruise ships. ;) Often three huge ones full of drones in one day. Do Wrangell and Pete get a milder invasion?

To clarify: when I say "get involved in the local community," I mean do they welcome volunteers at the school, the fire department, search-and-rescue, etc? I've been told by someone in Gustavus that the fire department always wants volunteers. I'm not sure what MacGyver meant about knowing...

I spent a couple years living in Juneau. It wasn't quite my kind of place: too big and crowded, kind of cliquish. I've been away from Alaska for a few years (other than a short time in south-central) but now I'm hoping to go back and try one of the places mentioned in the above title. I've not...

In Alaska we have a few small regional airlines (e.g. Alaska Seaplanes, Ravn) but I'm not aware of any that go to/from southeast or southcentral... or for that matter, to/from southeast and Washington. Assuming that for some reason (legal, practical, philosophical, whatever) one wants to avoid...