Question for Alaska map users ......

Juneau and Ketchikan are avaikable to route to for the state of Alaska.

I presume the "route to" function includes ferry transportation. Correct ?

Check out your map on MapSource. It will show what you are asking about. Both towns are there complete with detailed streets and names. To drive there, there is the Alcan highway.

To go to Juneau, my GPS tells me to board the Alaskan Marine highway.

Try it.

Actually you can't get to these two cities via the Alcan Highway. They are landlocked and require a boat or plane to reach. Odd since one of them, Juneau, is the Alaska capitol city.

Map of Alcan Hwy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway#mediaviewer/Fil...

Juneau is landlocked (unreachable by road--see sentence 2):
http://www.juneau-realestate.com/areapages/juneau.html

Ketchikan is an island and landlocked (see sentence 2):
http://ketchikansalmonfishing.com/ketchikan-alaska/

Of course the streets within the cities are mappable and some GPS models allow navigation to them via ferry.

The Garmin maps do have detailed streets for both Juneau and Ketchikan however the only way to get to either is by boat or air.

The Alcan Highway is just another name for the Alaska Highway which runs from Dawson Creek B.C. Canada to Delta Junction (south of Fairbanks) Alaska. The highway doesn't go to either Juneau of Ketchikan.

I just bet that the OP is going on an Alaskan cruise which will certainly stop in both the places he's asking about.

I'm always happy to read about the Alaska Hwy when it's properly identified as such.

I worked three 5-month seasons of semi-retirement in Skagway, a tiny town that on 2-3 days a week in Tourist Season could have more than a 10-fold increase in human bodies in town during the day when the big ships were in port.

Unlike the state's capital, Skagway has both road access to Canada and the Lower 48--as well as Alaska Marine Hwy service. But then, on the other hand, anything requiring more than a clinic with a PA will involve a medevac flight to Juneau--or when the weather prevents such a flight (and if the highway is open and not avalanched and temporarily closed), a 100+ mile ambulance ride into the hospital in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, complete with a Customs stop, I expect.

I contributed more than once to the town's Heard on the Wind column of the local newspaper, so visitors beware: we may offer your cute comments to the paper for all to read. The current posting:

http://www.skagwaynews.com/062514heardonthewind.html

Some memorable posts from the past (as remembered by me):

-"This town caters to us cruise ship passengers by having US postage stamps at the post office. Imagine that!"

-Asked of me at the NPS Visitor Center many times by passengers who walked up to me from their cruise ship gangway: "What's the elevation here? It must be very high with all these mountains." I replied that the Skagway airport elevation is 44 feet so I assume we're at about 30 feet above sea level.

-Asked of me on the WP&YR train: "Who planted all the trees I see everywhere?"

I wish I could remember more of them.

I just got back from Alaska and everything is there.

The latest from "Heard on the Wind":

Overheard on the “Doc Holiday”:
As the charter fishing boat was leaving the harbor with a group of visitors from a Princess ship, one member of the party looked up at the large white vessels to the left and asked of Captain Greg, “Are those cruise ships?”

Overheard by Commander Skip on the dock shuttle cart:
“I want to go to the Boeing plant, can you take me there?”
“Uh, do you mean the Boeing plant where they make jets?”
“Yes.”
“That’s in Seattle, about 1,000 miles from here.”

Overheard at 5th and Broadway at rhubarb corner:
“Those are Jurassic rhubarb plants!”
And on another day, same location, observing the same plants, a very knowledgeable fellow explained: “Those are giant Alaskan cabbages.”

These people breed!

Glad to hear Alaska is still there.

Well I learned something, just because it has detailed streets does not mean it's accessible.

Actually in a week I will be traveling to Moosonee at the bottom of James Bay in Northern Ontario and the train is the only land access there.