Cruises 2024 Alaska Inside Passage. In the early 1900s, when gold was alaska's claim to fame, fishing and timber industries were established in ketchikan. Stretching hundreds of miles from puget sound, washington, through the british columbia coast and into the gulf of alaska, the inside passage includes more than 1,000 islands, seemingly endless shoreline and thousands of idyllic coves and bays.

In the early 1900s, when gold was alaska’s claim to fame, fishing and timber industries were established in ketchikan. Stretching hundreds of miles from puget sound, washington, through the british columbia coast and into the gulf of alaska, the inside passage includes more than 1,000 islands, seemingly endless shoreline and thousands of idyllic coves and bays.