Aspen Hotels – JuneauLocated in the Veterans Memorial Building, the Juneau Douglas City Museum was completed in 1951 and was the first significant community project initiated by the city’s residents. The Museum used to house the Juneau Memorial Library until the mid-1980s when the memorial library outgrew the area, and the Museum took up residence. The city museum’s…
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Juneau Douglas City Museum
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Thunder Mountain
Looking over Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley, Thunder Mountain is named for avalanches that crash down the steep slopes in spring and winter. Thunder Mountain is the shortest of the five most famous mountains in Juneau (Mt Juseaun, Mt Jumbo, Mt Roberts, and Mt McGinnis), but the hike is steep and will probably take at least half…
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Alaska State Museum
This museum is a great way to explore the different Alaskan regions’ history, culture, and art through extensive permanent exhibits augmented with seasonally temporary and changing exhibitions. The Alaska State Museum’s collections include the Athabascan cultures of Alaska, cultural materials from the Northwest Coat people (Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian), the Yup’ik of Alaska Southwest, the…
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Mount Juneau
Mount Juneau is a 3,500+ foot massif located one and a half miles east of downtown Juneau, Alaska, in the Boundy Ranges. Mount Juneau is steeped in mining history. Its original name was Gold Mountain, and it was given by miners in 1881; then, it was later renamed Bald Mountain in 1896. Its current name,…