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We've compiled the best of the best in Ketchikan - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Authentic Northwest Coast art is the specialty at this crowded gallery run by local Tsimshian artist Ken Decker and his wife. Decker's work includes dance paddles, drums, and bentwood boxes featuring formline ravens, eagles, bears, and salmon.
The gallery, a light and cheery space run by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council, showcases established artists and rising stars. It's well worth a visit.
A booklover's bookstore with creaky floors and cozy quarters, Parnassus stocks many Alaskan titles.
In business since 1972, Scanlon carries the prints of well-known Alaska artists, including Byron Birdsall, John Fehringer, Barbara Lavallee, Rie Muñoz, and Jon Van Zyle. The gallery also exhibits jewelry, glasswork, and pottery.
Design, art, clothing, and collectibles can all be found at stylish Soho Coho. Also here are T-shirts featuring the work of owner Ray Troll—best known for his wacky fish art—and works by other Southeast artists.
Well-known Ketchikan artist Evon Zerbetz opened this lovely Creek Street gallery in 2024 in a former gallery and before that the local dance hall, The Star House. Zerbetz's linocuts and Ray Troll's prints and T-shirts are featured, along with an interesting mix of jewelry, ceramics, prints, and original art from the region and beyond.
