Douglas Island
Douglas Island is a tidal island in the U.S.
Douglas Island is a tidal island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the city and borough of Juneau, just west of downtown Juneau and east of Admiralty Island. It is separated from mainland Juneau by the Gastineau Channel, and contains the communities of Douglas and West Juneau.
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Worth seeing in and around Douglas Island
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mount Troy
Mount Troy is a mountain in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is a peak of the Boundary Ranges, located on Douglas Island, west of the head of Kowee Creek and 3 miles southwest of the city of Juneau.
1.8 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia - 02Table Top Mountain
Table Top Mountain is a mountain in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is a peak of the Boundary Ranges, located on Douglas Island 2 miles northeast of Cropley Lake and 3.5 miles west of the city of Juneau.
2.4 km · mountain in Alaska, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Douglas Island
- Anchorage → Douglas Island920 km · quickest by road, 32h 21m · $110–155
- Seattle → Douglas Island1435 km · quickest by road, 61h 16m · $245–340
- Victoria → Douglas Island114 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · C$17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Douglas Island
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Douglas Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSmaller airlines that operate regularly scheduled and chartered flights to Juneau from nearby communities have offices at the airport.
- Get in}} Juneau is a main port for the , Alaska's ferry system.
- Get inThe ferry runs regularly throughout Southeast Alaska with regular stops in Ketchikan, Petersburg, Wrangel, Sitka, Haines, and Skagway.
- Get inThe closest port with a road connection is Haines, about a five-hour ride away from Juneau by regular ferry or a two-hour ride on one of the state's new catamaran ferries.
- Get inThe ferry system is the only way to transport a car to Juneau, short of shipping it up on a barge.
From Wikivoyage: Juneau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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