If It’s Free, It’s For Me

Step off your cruise ship and look up. The mountains are calling. Juneau has hundreds of trails, and you can access them from pretty much anywhere. A great, medium-grade hike just a 10-minute walk from downtown is Perseverance Trail. At one point it was the first road in Alaska, used to get to Silverbow Basin, where Chief Kowee of the Auk Kwaan Tlingit people led prospectors Joe Juneau and Richard Harris to gold in 1880. Now it’s a three-mile trail each way that’s dotted with interpretive signs. Walk up Gold Street and when it curves to the right and then the left, keep going.