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TOURS NATIVE CULTURE - Ketchikan Visitors Bureau

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ATTrACTiONS<br />

Skybridges and ziplines at attractions north and south of<br />

town offer excitement high above the ground. Cherished<br />

totem poles reclaimed from now-vacated Native villages<br />

recline in the care of Totem Heritage Center, a museum<br />

of Alaska Native history.<br />

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• <strong>Visitors</strong> to george Inlet Cannery tour<br />

the site’s original buildings and see<br />

equipment that helped old <strong>Ketchikan</strong><br />

earn bragging rights as “Canned<br />

Salmon Capital of the World.”<br />

• Tours offer a walk beneath our lush<br />

rain forest or your choice of exciting<br />

ziplines tracing descents through the<br />

heights of the conifer canopy.<br />

• Totem Bight State Park north of<br />

town features a traditionally styled<br />

long house with restored totem<br />

poles.<br />

• Potlatch Park near Totem Bight<br />

presents a replica of a Native village,<br />

including totemic carvings. The<br />

site also has a museum displaying<br />

classic cars and rare firearms.<br />

s Circle #6 on the Reader Service Card<br />

For information about <strong>Ketchikan</strong>-area attractions, see Directory pages 45-46

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