Sunday, June 26, 2016

Ward Lake

On the due north side of Ketchikan, non far from the cruise shipping crowds, Ward Creek tumbles downward through a glacial valley, headed for the Tongass Narrows.  Gathering the natural springtime of several glacial lakes along the way, it eventually flows through Ward Lake earlier commencement its concluding stretch to the sea.

Surrounded past times a rich Temperate Rainforest of western cedar together with hemlock together with hosting rustic shelters built past times the Civilian Conservation Corps, Ward Lake is encircled past times a pleasant, well-engineered trail.  Educational plaques, spaced along the route, innovate visitors to the ecology of the valley together with fine wooden bridges ford the creek together with its tributaries.  Though a campgrounds borders the lake, nosotros encountered less than a dozen beau hikers on our two-mile circuit.

In this province of spectacular scenery together with untamed wilderness, relative solitude together with silence are never far away.  While those de-boarding the cruise ships caput for arts and crafts shops, historic sites, tour buses together with taverns, those of us interested inward the landscape together with wild fauna bring endless places to explore, oftentimes quite approximately town.

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