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“Sitka is nestled right along the Alaska coast, with the ocean on one side, and the Inside Passage on the other,” Kingfisher says on its website.

For the truly daring, there’s the 500-mile run through the Inside Passage to Alaska.

Lives Lived: Jonathan Raban, a British author who traveled to the Middle East, down the Mississippi River and to Alaska’s Inside Passage, said he was not a “travel writer.”

Known as the North Shore Inside Passage, the sparsely populated region has a craggy coastline of thick boreal forest, interspersed with billion-year-old bedrock and small artisan communities.

Peggy Cleveland says fall is an ideal time for a road trip to Canada or a cruise of Alaska’s Inside Passage.