Juneau City Guide
Juneau Map: Every Place This Guide Covers, on One Map
This Juneau map puts the places this guide covers on one screen, and it is drawn for a town with two shapes: six walkable downtown blocks around the cruise docks, and a 40-mile road system that reaches the glacier, the bay and the Shrine. The pin positions are our placements, from street locations, because no official source publishes coordinates for most of these sites. Filter by category, tap a pin for the price and the page that explains it, or open any point in Google Maps and go. The full planning picture is on the Juneau city guide homepage.
Quick answer How to use this map, in three lines
Thirteen pins in four colours: brown for sights, blue for the glacier pair, gold for food, grey for museums. Every pin carries the price where a real figure exists and two links: the page on this site that explains the place, and Google Maps for directions.
Key takeaways
- The downtown pins cluster inside the six blocks around the cruise docks, and the cruise port page explains the berths
- The glacier pair sits 13 miles from downtown, and the $5 day pass question is answered on Mendenhall Glacier
- Two of the pins are free always, the Capitol and the Shrine, and the free set is indexed on free things to do
The Map
Numbered pins, filterable by category, each with its name printed on the map. The list under the map is the same set in text, grouped the same way, because search engines read lists rather than pins. Pin positions are our placements; the popup price appears only where a real figure is published.
Sights 16 pins
- Cruise ship docks, Franklin StreetfreeFour berths along the downtown seawall; every gangway lands at the foot of the six-block hillside, so the whole walkable city starts here.
- Mount Roberts Tramway baseThe 1,800-foot aerial tram up the mountain, closed since the 30 April 2026 accident; the lower terminal still runs its Raven About Coffee and Tlingit carving and weaving sessions.
- Juneau Public Library, Juneau Voices startfreeThe start of the Juneau Voices sound walk: black, red and white signs with audio posts string the waterfront and staircases into one self-guided loop.
- Marine Park & waterfrontfreeBenches, tide flats and floatplane traffic at the water's edge; the best free harbour seat, and the ships you came on look best from here.
- Macaulay Salmon HatcheryA working hatchery with a 450-foot ladder and viewing windows; visit at the June to August run and you watch salmon stack up by the thousand.
- Sandy Beach & Treadwell ruinsfreeThe calm-water beach on Douglas Island beside the ruins of the Treadwell mine town that collapsed into the sea in 1917; walk the pilings and pump-house walls.
- Shrine of St. TheresefreeA cobblestone chapel of beach stone on its own causeway past Auke Bay; the quietest beautiful half hour on the road system, tides permitting.
- Eagle Beach, Lena PointfreeWide braided flats at the road's end where bald eagles work the fish runs; on clear winter nights it doubles as the town's aurora-watching bench.
- Auke Bay harbour, the whale fleetcruises from $107.80Every Juneau whale cruise sails from this harbour, about 20 minutes by road from the docks; three hours on the water with the humpbacks that feed in these channels all summer.
- Perseverance Trailhead, Basin RoadfreeThe Gold Creek valley walk that starts where the pavement ends behind downtown, following the old mine road three miles up to Silverbow Basin.
- Gold Creek Flume TrailThe boardwalk flume path up the valley beside the creek; closed for trail construction through the 2026 season, with Perseverance next door as the open alternative.
- Juneau International Airport, JNUAlaska Airlines' Southeast hub across the valley; taxis meet every flight and the Capital Transit Airport Connector runs the Egan Drive corridor into town.
- Eaglecrest Ski AreaThe city-owned ski hill on Douglas Island's back side, chairs turning December through April on coastal snow; in summer its trails go quiet and green.
- Sheep Creek trailheadfreeThe creek-and-waterfall walk at the start of the Thane road, minutes from downtown; salmon stack in the creek late summer and the flats keep the tide tables honest.
- Douglas BridgefreeWalk it once: the channel, the hillside of houses and the whole downtown skyline compose themselves from the middle of the bridge.
- Downtown staircases, Kennedy HillfreeThe wooden staircases that thread the hillside above Franklin Street are how locals actually commute; climb one block of them and you understand the town.
Glaciers & valley 5 pins
- Glacier Gardens Rainforest AdventureThe famous upside-down spruce trees, flowers planted on their root balls, and a guided ride up the mountainside through temperate rainforest; book a slot, it fills.
- Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center$5 day pass May 1 to Sep 30The one glacier you can reach by city bus: the visitor center's film and exhibits over the iceberg lake, Photo Point and the Nugget Falls trail below; $5 pass in season, 15 and under free.
- Nugget Falls viewpointThe flat, stroller-friendly trail along the lake to the 377-foot falls that drop beside the glacier's face; the loudest, wettest payoff in Juneau.
- Mendenhall Lake, Photo PointThe postcard angle across the lake: stranded icebergs, grey-green water and the ice wall behind; about 90 minutes covers the centre plus this walk.
- Herbert Glacier TrailheadThe quiet glacier walk out at mile 28 Glacier Highway: 4.9 miles one way of old growth to the braided outwash plain under the Herbert ice face.
Food & drink 3 pins
- Red Dog SaloonThe gold-rush-theme institution of S Franklin: sawdust floors, aproned staff and a line out the door on any five-ship morning; the hearty platters are the point.
- Alaskan Hotel & BarThe town's storied oldest hotel bar at 167 S Franklin, all dark wood and gold-rush gossip; ghost tours start at its door after dark.
- Tracy's King Crab ShackKing-crab legs, crab cakes and chowder from a shack-turned-brickwork near the docks; the single most requested meal in Juneau, so go before the noon rush.
Museums & history 7 pins
- Alaska State CapitolfreeThe working capital of the state, Tokeen marble columns and all; walk in on weekdays, and in summer free guided tours leave from the lobby on weekday afternoons.
- St. Nicholas Orthodox ChurchfreeThe 1894 Russian Orthodox church under the gold onion dome, the oldest original church in Southeast Alaska, tucked between hillside houses on Fifth Street.
- Juneau-Douglas City MuseumThe town's own museum one block off Franklin: the gold-rush story, mining machinery and the history of the capital, told small and well.
- House of WickershamThe territorial judge's mansion on 7th Street above the town, period rooms and harbour views; pairs naturally with the museum below.
- Sealaska Heritage, Walter Soboleff BuildingThe Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian arts campus: monumental carved screens and clan exhibits that put the city's first people at the centre of its story.
- Last Chance Mining MuseumThe Alaska-Juneau Mine's compressor building at the end of the Thane road, packed with industrial artifacts under the mountainside; hours are seasonal, check before walking out.
- Alaska State MuseumThe state's flagship collection downtown: the full-mounted brown bear, Northwest Coast carvings, Russian-era artifacts and fine art under one modern roof; the rainy-day anchor.
Pin positions are our placements from street locations, geocoded by hand because no official source publishes coordinates for these sites. Prices repeat the official figure from each place's page, read 10 September 2026; where a venue publishes no visitor-facing price, the pin says so rather than inventing one.
The downtown cluster: six blocks around the docks
Sixteen of the thirty-one pins sit inside the downtown grid, and that density is the fact that shapes a Juneau day. The cruise berths at pin 1 are the anchor: from the gangway you are two blocks from Tracy's King Crab Shack (pin 24) and the Red Dog Saloon (pin 22), four from the State Capitol (pin 25) and the St. Nicholas church (pin 26), and a short climb from the wooden staircases at pin 16. The museum row runs pins 25 to 29: the capitol, the church, the city museum, the Wickersham House and the Sealaska Heritage arts campus, all within a ten-minute loop.
The blue-and-red Juneau Voices signs start at the library (pin 3) and string the walk together; cross the Douglas Bridge (pin 15) and the Treadwell ruins at pin 6 add a beach to the same day.
The valley pins: the glacier and its neighbours
The glacier pins are 13 miles from the docks, which in Juneau terms means a $2 bus, a taxi or a tour transfer, not a walk. The Mendenhall visitor center at pin 18 is the head of the system: the $5 day pass runs 1 May to 30 September, ages 15 and under free, and it covers Photo Point (pin 20) and the boardwalks below. Pin 19, the Nugget Falls viewpoint, is the loudest payoff on the map, a 377-foot falls dropping beside the ice.
Pin 17, Glacier Gardens, sits at the valley mouth with its upside-down trees; pin 5, the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery, is the July to August stop. Serious walkers trade the crowds for pin 21, the Herbert Glacier Trail out at mile 28, 4.9 miles each way through old growth. The airport (pin 12) sits in the same valley, which is why the airport-to-downtown run is barely twenty minutes.
Out the road: the bay, the Shrine and the mines
North and south of downtown the pins thin out, and each is its own trip. North: pin 9 is Auke Bay, the harbour every whale cruise sails from, and two miles further the road ends at pin 8, Eagle Beach, the eagle working ground and the town's aurora bench. The causeway chapel at pin 7, the Shrine of St. Therese, is the quietest half hour on the road system.
South: pins 10 and 11, the Perseverance Trailhead and the closed-for-2026 Gold Creek Flume, sit at the top of Basin Road, and the Thane road beyond them passes pin 14's Sheep Creek falls and ends at pin 30, the Last Chance Mining Museum. On the Douglas side, pin 13's Eaglecrest fills a quiet half day.
How to use this map on the ground
Three practical notes before you go. First, the numbering: pins run 1 to 31 through the four groups, sights first, then the glaciers, the food and the museums, and the numbers on the map are the numbers in the list; filtering by category keeps each pin's number, so the visitor centre stays pin 18 in every view. Second, the prices: a pin shows a price only where a real, published figure exists, the $5 Mendenhall pass, the whale-cruise band from $107.80, and the free sites; where a venue publishes nothing the pin stays silent rather than guess.
Third, the seasons: pin 11's flume trail is closed for construction through 2026, pin 2's tramway has been shut since 30 April 2026, and the hatchery (pin 5) and the salmon creeks only perform in summer. Every figure here was read on a dated page, and the things to do index carries the full entries behind each pin.
The pins that are booked, not walked
Two of the pins sit at the head of a booking: the whale fleet at Auke Bay and the glacier pair in the valley. The official option is always the first row on the tickets page; these are the operator products that carry you to the pins.
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Juneau: Mendenhall Glacier and Whale Watching Tour
Whale cruise + Mendenhall stop
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Juneau Map: Questions
Can you walk around Juneau from the cruise port?
The downtown pins, yes: the docks, the tram base, the Capitol, the museum, the church and Red Dog all sit within the six walkable blocks around the berths. The glacier, the bay and the Shrine need a bus, taxi or tour, and the berth-by-berth detail is on the cruise port page.
How far is the glacier from the cruise berths?
13 miles, per the DMO and the Forest Service, which is a $2 bus ride on the valley routes or a short taxi, not a walk. The pass, hours and the 2026 flood-recovery status are on the glacier page, and the blue pins on the map mark the stop.
Where do the cruise ships dock in Juneau?
Along the downtown waterfront, the pin marked cruise ship docks on the map, a few minutes' walk from the tram base and the main sights. The calendar and the berths' names are not published on the official page we checked, which is the honest limit of the answer on the cruise port page.
Is there a marked walking route through the town centre?
The town marks its own: a self-guided route signed with black, red and white signs runs through the downtown blocks, with Juneau Voices sound installations along it. The street-by-street version is on the downtown page, and the pins on this map carry the Google Maps links for navigation.
Why do some pins show no price?
Because the venue publishes no visitor-facing price that we could verify: no official page states an admission for the hatchery, Glacier Gardens, the church or the museum this run, and the tram publishes no rates while closed. This site never invents a figure; the rule is the same one on the tickets index.
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