And while I love a beach vacation or a trip to a big city, a different type of destination has taken over my travel daydreams ...

Listen: Juneau’s Peterson Lake trail is known for being a bit wet. It winds through muskeg to a lake, where a U.S. Forest Service cabin hosts overnight ...

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Plane spotting is a favorite pastime for Airport Dike Trail users, especially when Alaska Airlines debuted local Tlingit artist Crystal Worl’s livery on a Boeing 737 in Juneau in May of 2023.

Mary F. Willson is a retired professor of ecology. “On The Trails” appears every Wednesday in the Juneau Empire.

It features the Ocean Landing pier and the newer Wilderness Landing pier, including access to the SkyGlider gondola, nature trails ... 30 miles west of Juneau, Alaska. Although it is inaccessible ...

We weren’t hiking per se, but “side-hilling,” Alaskan ... the notoriously blood-thirsty insects are so big and ubiquitous in Alaska they’re jokingly referred to as the state bird.

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