Alaska Northbound Vancouver to Anchorage 7 Days — day by day

👀See & do: Start with Creek Street, the historic boardwalk on stilts over the creek - galleries, salmon watching in season, and the town's best photo walk, all free and ten minutes from the dock. The Totem Heritage Center and Saxman Native Village hold the world's largest totem-pole collection; Saxman runs $40-50 by tour or taxi.

👀See & do: The anchor is Mendenhall Glacier, 12 miles from the dock: shuttle buses run every 30 minutes for about $45-60 round trip, and the city bus costs a few dollars each way but stops a mile from the visitor center. At the glacier, the Photo Point trail is a flat ten-minute walk; Nugget Falls adds a mostly flat 2-mile round trip.

👀See & do: The White Pass & Yukon Route is the anchor: a 3-hour round trip climbing to the White Pass summit with trestles, tunnels and gold-rush history, at $130-160 per person. Morning departures leave the afternoon free.

👀See & do: Hubbard's face is six miles wide and up to 400 feet high - the largest tidewater glacier in North America - and because it is advancing rather than retreating, it calves frequently and dramatically, with house-sized blocks hitting the water. Harbor seals rest on the floating ice; the peaks of the St.