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Arrival, information and accommodation
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Ferries
visit Sitka around five times per week, mooring seven miles northwest of town on Halibut Point Road (tel 907/747-3300), from where Sitka Tours
shuttles
(tel 907/747-8443; $7 round-trip) run downtown; they also do three-hour tours of town ($10). Alaska Airlines runs a daily service on the Seattle-Juneau-Anchorage route from the airport on Japonski Island, a pleasant half-hour walk from downtown or $3 ride with Sitka Tours.
Mountain bikes
can be rented from Yellow Jersey Cycles, 805 Halibut Point Rd (tel 907/747-6317), and Baidarka Boats, 201 Lincoln St (tel 907/747-8996,
), rents single and double
kayaks
($35/50 a day) as well as organizing day-long guided trips on the Sound ($65). The
CVB
office is in the Centennial Building, 330 Harbor Drive (daily 8am-5pm; tel 907/747-3220,
).
Sitka has a good range of
accommodation
: the spartan
HI-Sitka
hostel, 303 Kimshan St (tel 907/747-8661; up to $35; closed Sept-May), in a Methodist church a mile from downtown, has beds for $10 (nonmembers $13); the historic
Sitka Hotel
, 118 Lincoln St (tel 907/747-3288,
; $75-100), offers a touch of old-fashioned class and good-value rooms that come with and without bathrooms;
Finn Alley Inn B&B
, 711 Lincoln St (tel 907/747-3655, fax 747-5007,
; $100-130), is well located and its large half-basement apartment has private entrance, full kitchen and a continental breakfast delivered to the room; and the
Westmark Shee Atika
, 330 Seward St (tel 907/747-6241 or 1-800/544-0970,
; $160-200), owns the flashest rooms in town.
Campers
should head a mile north of the ferry dock to the
Starrigavan
campground (tel 907/747-4216; $8) or seven miles east of Sitka to the free but basic
Sawmill Creek
site. Other useful information
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