Cruise Ship Days
Which days a cruise ship is in port and how busy the downtown core will be — so you can time errands, the bank, lunch and parking.
Ketchikan’s summer days are shaped by who is in port. This is the published cruise-ship schedule — when ships are in, roughly how many passengers come ashore, and how busy the downtown core is likely to be — so you can time errands, appointments, the bank, lunch and parking. Ships occasionally change or cancel; it is a schedule, not a live tracker.
Ward Cove ships dock out of town
Ships marked “Ward Cove” berth about 7 miles north of downtown and shuttle their passengers in, so the crowd downtown can lag the arrival time. Ships “at anchor” tender passengers ashore by small boat.
Today
Norwegian Bliss
Ship in port today
Expect downtown to be heavy — heavy foot traffic on the downtown core (Front and Mission), about 4,000 passengers ashore