Ward Cove Cruise Ship Pier

I was at Ward Cove Cruise Terminal in Ketchikan on an Alaskan cruise in mid-October. To my surprise, it was not raining, and the weather was absolutely beautiful. When we departed the ship, we went into a huge warehouse. There were restaurants, coffee shops, entertainment, and lots of shopping. I was able to find nice quality tee-shirts for $8. And a beautiful sweater for $12. In the rear of the warehouse are signs for excursions and the complimentary shuttle to downtown. This was a fun stop on my cruise

Super neat cruise terminal! It's an old mill turned into a shopping center and cruise terminal. There was even live music and plenty of shopping with good value! Very quaint and wild west-like.

This is Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) dock in Ketchikan. The down side it is far from town making shopping difficult but they do provide shuttles. Many of the excursions depart from this location so if that is your goal, it isn't a big issue. The dock does have probably the best 'welcome' area I've seen with lots of shopping, including tourist items of all types, snack foods/drinks, travel needs, a waiting area and entertainment the day we were there. As far as excursions go, this port had the best organized meeting points and departures for excursions. Many other pickup locations you have to wander around to find your guide, but this location had a very nice digital display board with excursions listed and then clearly marked meet up points.

Great place to get souvenirs to take home. I bought so much I had to sit on my luggage to close it. Reasonable prices. Something for everyone.

I love everything about Alaska! Highly recommend a cruise to Alaska. It is worth every penny.

Great place to buy your souvenirs. If you can't find it then it doesn't exist.

This was a great pier for the cruise ships to dock at. Ward Cove has a ton of history on the local milling and logging. Wide open with plenty of shops and restrooms. The only complaint is that it it away from the downtown area so you have to shuttle and it took awhile to get through the line but they were well staffed, and the line moved quickly, but it can be intimidating when you have everybody getting off the ship and having to file through the Ward Cove area trying to get onto a shuttle to get to downtown. Overall, it was worth it though and the line moved quickly.

A bit outside city centre, but off course there are shuttle bus services. 15-20 minute drive.

Great space to find some last minute knick knacks.
Note! There is a public bus that drives to downtown for free... Just like the cruise shuttle. So take advantage of the shuttle line is too long.

New to us. Norwegian Cruise Line built this port. It is fun to shop for stuff, for good Low prices. Ward Cove is 15-20 minutes away from Ketchikan. Bus shuttle is the only means of getting there. 2023.

Lots of shopping at the pier. Down side is this pier is 7 miles from downtown. You don't want to shop and haul everything with you. When you return it is time to be back on the ship and if course the lines are huge. So many cruise ships. Even with just ours 4700 people make long lines. If your cruise ship can dock downtown you are right at all the activities and shopping.

Great prices. Very nice variety of clothes. Tour guides send us off in the right tours. Much better than Icy straights. Incy straights was unorganized. Every person we went to to find our tour didn't know nothing. Great selection of clothes and decent quality and quality and prices.

Really great local musicians playing and a great selection of souvenirs.

Second time to visit within the past 7 months. If you can't find it here, you're not going to find it, lol.

A large, clean and well lit shopping area. There are clean bathrooms and access to the free shuttle bus to downtown here too. Don't forget to use the free wifi here!

We bought some souvenirs. Nice place in a converted wood pulp factory so a bit of history as well.
I really like there was a local musician.

This place is pretty far out from Ketchikan. They run shuttles but it's 20+ minutes to town and you might fair 20 minutes to fill the shuttle. . Make sure if you plan enough time if you're booking a tour.

Probably the most organized cruise ship pier I've ever been to. The shuttles downtown were clearly marked and separated from the excursion area, which had clear signs and plenty of seating. There were also frequent shuttles from the ship, local souvenirs, and a small deli with coffee and really good cookies.

Best process and largest selection of goods we found on our entire Alaska cruise. If you are struggling with finding good merchandise for souvenirs at earlier stops and you have Ketchikan later on your itinerary, save your money for this stop. You won't regret it.

Large amount of merchandise for sale. This was actually good as we had a very short window of visitation in Ketchikan AK and were unable to stop our tour to get any souvenirs. Prices were actually reasonable