Tongass National Forest
America’s largest forest — a temperate rainforest
Seventeen million acres of misty temperate rainforest across Southeast Alaska, threaded with fjords, glaciers, and more bald eagles than anywhere on earth. You explore it by boat and floatplane as much as by trail.
What to see
- Mendenhall Glacier
- Misty Fjords National Monument
- Anan bear observatory
- Glacier-fed inlets
- Old-growth spruce
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