Kayak camping, tides & launches: Southeast Alaska Inside Passage

Southeast Alaska Inside Passage: Coastal paddling with 37 campsites, 58 boat launches and 222 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 288 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (126 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.

Campsites

From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 2 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (🛶). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.

Fee or reservation (6)

• Chilkoot Lake State Recreationsite
• Kinaskan Lake Campground
• Last Chance Campground
• Signal Creek Campground
• Three C's Group Use Campground
• Waters Edge Campground

Permit, protocol or private (4)

• Eagle River Scout Camp
• Falls Lake Camp
• Gut Bay Field Camp
• McKinley Camp

Free or backcountry (5)

• Dease Lake Informal Camping
• Gnarled Islands (BCMT) 🛶
• Mary SW (reported)
• Morchuea Lake Recreation Site
• Sawmill Point Campground

Fees not recorded (check locally) (9)

• Bartlett Cove Campground
• Chakima Horse Camp
• Eagle River Methodist Camp
• Mendenhall Campground
• Ohmer Creek Campground
• Portage Cove Campground 🛶
• RW Cabins
• Salmon Run RV Campground & Cabins
• Thane Campground

Tide stations

Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.

• Affleck Canal entrance, Kuiu Island
• Alva Bay, Revillagigedo Island
• American Bay, Kaigani Strait
• Anchor Point
• Anguilla Island
• Auke Bay
• Baranof, Warm Spring Bay
• Barlow Cove, Mansfield Peninsula
• Bartlett Cove, Glacier Bay
• Bear Bay
• Beck Island, Clarence Strait
• Beecher Pass
• Blaquiere Point
• Blashke Island
• Block Island, Tlevak Narrows
• Boca de Quadra
• Bradfield Canal, Ernest Sound
• Brown Cove
• Burrough Bay, Behm Canal
• Bushy Island, Snow Passage
• Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay
• Canoe Cove, North Pass
• Castle Islands, Duncan Canal
• Chilkat Inlet
• Cleveland Passage, Whitney Island
• Composite Island
• Coon Island, George Inlet
• Copper Harbor
• Coronation Island
• Cosmos Point
• Cove Point, Berner's Bay
• Craig, Klawock Inlet
• Cruz Pass, San Fernando Island
• Custom House Cove, Mary Island
• Cyrus Cove, Sea Otter Sound
• Davis River entrance, Alaska
• Divide Head, Cholmondeley Sound
• Dixon Harbor
• Dorothy Cove, Necker Bay
• Dry Strait
• Edna Bay
• El Capitan Island
• El Capitan Passage, Dry Pass
• El Capitan Passage, S. of Devilfish Bay
• El Capitan Passage, W. of Aneskett Pt.
• Elbow Bay
• Elbow Passage, Klag Bay
• Elfin Cove, Port Althorp
• Eliza Harbor, Admiralty Island
• Eliza Harbor, Liesnoi Island
• Entrance Island
• Excursion Inlet Entrance
• Excursion Inlet, North End
• Fairway Island
• Falcon Arm, Slocum Arm
• False Bay, Chatham Strait
• Favorite Bay
• Fitzgibbon Cove
• Ford's Terror, Stephens Pass
• Freshwater Bay, Chichagof Island
• Fritz Cove, Douglas Island
• Funter, Funter Bay
• Gambier Bay (cannery wharf)
• Golf Island, Necker Island
• Good Island, Gambier Bay
• Graves Harbor
• Greely Point, Taku Inlet
• Greys Island
• Haines Inlet
• Haley Anchorage, Fish Bay
• Hawk Inlet Entrance
• Haystack Island, B.C.
• Herring Bay
• Hidden Inter Entrance, Pearse Inlet
• Hobart Bay
• Holkham Bay, Tracy Arm Entrance
• Holkham Bay, Wood Spit
• Hollis Anchorage
• Hoonah, Port Fredrick
• Hunter Bay
• Hut Point, Behm Canal
• HYDABURG, SUKKWAN STRAIT
• Hyder, Portland Canal
• Ideal Cove, Mitkof Island
• Ingraham Bay, Prince of Wales Island
• Inian Cove, North Inian Pass
• Juneau
• Kah Shakes Cove
• Kake Harbor, Keku Strait
• Kasaan
• Kasnyku Bay
• Kasook Inlet, Sukkwan Island
• Kassa Inlet entrance
• Keete Inlet
• Keete Island, Nutkwa Inlets
• Kell Bay, Affleck Canal, Kuiu Island
• Kelp Island Passage, Duke Island
• Ketchikan
• Killisnoo
• Kimshan Cove, Ogden Passage
• Klokachef Island
• Kumeon Bay, B.C.
• Lake Bay
• Lancaster Cove, Cholmondeley Sound
• Leconte Bay
• Lincoln Island
• Lindeman Cove
• Lindenburg Head
• Loring, Naha Bay
• Mabel Island
• Madan Bay
• Magnetic Point, Union Bay, Earnest Sound
• Marble Island
• Menefee Anch., Prince of Wales Island
• Metlakatla, Port Chester
• Miner Island
• Minnie Bay
• Mitchell Bay
• Monte Carlo Island
• Mop Point, Thorne Arm
• Morse Cove, Duke Island
• Mud Bay
• Mud Bay, Goose Island
• Muir Inlet
• Nakat Harbor, Alaska
• Natalia Point
• Nehenta Bay, Gravina Island
• Niblack Anchorage, Moira Sound
• Nismeni Cove
• North Pass, West End
• Nossuk Bay, Tonowek Bay
• Olga Point, Olga Strait
• Papke's Landing
• Pelican Harbor, Lisianski Inlet, AK
• Petersburg
• Point Adolphus
• Point Elizabeth
• Point Harrington
• Point Lockwood, Woewodski Island
• Point St. Albans
• Point Thatcher
• Pole Anchorage, Kosciusko Island
• Port Alexander, Baranof Island
• Port Alice, Heceta Island
• Port Beauclerc, Kuiu Island
• Port Houghton (Inside)
• Port Houghton, Robert Islands
• Port Malmesbury, Kuiu Island
• Port McArthur, Kuiu Island
• Port Protection, Prince of Wales Island.
• Port Snettisham, Crib Point
• Port Snettisham, Point Styleman
• Port Snettisham, Speel River Arm
• Port Walter, Baranof Island
• Portage Bay, Kupreanof Island
• Povorotni Island, Pogibshi Point
• Ranger Islet
• Rasp Ledge, Seymour Canal
• Ratz Harbor, Prince of Wales Island
• Red Bluff Bay
• Reef Point, Stikine Strait
• Reid Bay
• Rudyerd Bay
• Saginaw Bay, Kuiu Island
• Sakie Bay
• Saltery Cove, Skowl Arm
• Saltery Point
• Sawyer Island, Tracy Arm
• Scraggy Island
• Scraggy Point
• Sea Otter Harbor
• Security Cove
• Serguis Narrows
• Shakan Bay Entrance
• Shakan Strait, Kosciusko Island
• Sharp Point, Speel Arm
• Shinaku Inlet
• Sitka
• Soda Bay
• South Pass, Sukkwan Strait
• Steamboat Bay, Noyes Island
• Stewart
• Sulzer
• Sumner Island
• Surge Bay
• Swanson Harbor
• Symonds Bay, Biorka Island
• Table Bay, Kuiu Island
• Tah Bay
• Taiyasanka Harbor, Taiya Inlet
• Takanis Bay
• Taku Harbor
• Taku Point, Taku Inlet
• Tamgas Harbor, Annette Island
• Target Island, Mitchell Bay
• Tarr Inlet, Glacier Bay
• Tebenkof Bay, Kuiu Island
• Tenakee Springs, Tenakee Inlet
• The Brothers
• The Summit
• Thomas Bay
• Thoms Point, Zimovia Strait
• Thorne Island, Whale Passage
• TROCADERO BAY
• Turn Point
• Tuxekan, 0.5 mile south of
• Upper Endicott Arm, North Shore
• Vallenar Point
• View Cove
• Village Rock, Zimovia Strait
• Wachusett Inlet, Glacier Bay
• Wales Island (Cannery), Pearse Canal
• Ward Cove
• Whitestone Narrows, Neva Strait
• Whitewater Bay, Admiralty Island
• William Henry Bay
• Willoughby Island
• Windfall Harbor, Seymour Canal
• Windham Bay
• Wrangell, Wrangell Island
• Yes Cannery, Yes Bay
• Young Bay

Tidal currents and slack water

• 0.2 mile off Flat Point
• 0.2 mile off Taku Point
• Affleck Canal
• Ajax Reef
• Allan Pt., 1.5mile W of, Nakwasina Passage
• Amelius Island, 1 mile east of
• Anchor Point
• Arriaga Passage, west end
• Aurora Basin, SW of
• Barren Island Light, 2 miles south from
• Battery Point, Chilkoot Inlet
• Beardslee Island, West of, Glacier Bay
• Beauclerc Island Light, 1 mile east of
• Behm Narrows
• Berg Bay
• Between Dundas Island and Cape Fox
• Big Rose Island, 0.2 n.mi. SE of
• Biorka Channel
• Blaine Point
• Blake Island
• Blanche Rock
• Blank Point
• Blaquiere Point, 1 mile SSW of
• Blunt Point
• Boat Rocks, 2 miles west of
• Boca de Finas
• Boston Islands, 1 mile south from
• Brockman Island, east of
• Cabras Islands, 1 mile west of
• Calder Rocks
• Cape Bartolome, 2 miles east of
• Cape Chacon, south of
• Cape Flores
• Cape Flores, 1 mile north of
• Cape Muzon, 4 miles south from
• Cape Muzon, 5 miles east of
• Cape Ommaney Light, 5 miles east of
• Cape Spencer, 3 miles south of
• Channel Island, north of
• Cliff Point, 1 mile east from
• Cora Point, 2 miles east of
• Corlies Islands
• Coronados Islands, 2 miles west of
• Coronation Island - Spanish Island, between
• Cosmos Point, 0.5 mile east of
• Craig Cannery
• Creek Point, 0.44 n.mi. SE of
• Cross Sound Entrance, midchannel
• Cross Sound Entrance, NW of Cape Bingham
• Cross Sound Entrance, SE of Cape Spencer Lt.
• Cucumber Reef, 0.2 mile northwest of
• Customhouse Cove, 1 mile west of
• Danger Point Light, 3 miles west of
• Dead Tree Point
• Devils Elbow
• Dewey Rocks, 2 miles west of
• Dickens Point
• Diver Islands
• Douglas, north of
• Driest Point
• Dry Pass
• Eagle Island, 0.5 mile southeast of
• Eagle Point
• East Channel (narrows)
• East Devil Rock, 1 mile north of
• east of the airport
• East Point, east of
• Eaton Point
• El Capitan Strait, northwest entrance
• Elbow Passage, south of Klag Island
• Eva Islands
• Fairway Island
• Fairway Island, 2nm east of
• Fairway Island, SW of
• False Linderberg Head, 1 mile south of
• Flat Point , 1 mile east of
• Found Island, 1 mile northwest of
• Glacier Bay entrance, midchannel
• Glacier Bay entrance, off Point Carolus
• Glacier Bay entrance, off Point Gustavus
• Glacier Point, Chilkat Inlet
• Grand Island, 2 miles north of
• Grass Rock, 1 mile south of
• Grass Rock, Tamgas Harbor entrance
• Green Point
• Grindall Island, south of
• Guard Island Lighthouse, 5.1 miles SW of
• Guard Islands, 2 miles northwest of
• Guard Islands, 2 miles west of
• Halibut Nose
• Happy Harbor, Kasaan Island, Kasaan Bay
• Harris Island
• Hawk Inlet, Hawk Point
• Haystack Island, Tongass Passage
• Hazy Islands
• Helm Point
• Helm Rock
• Hid Reef, 2.7 miles south of
• High Island, 1.1 miles south of
• High Island, northwest of
• High Point, 1 mile east of
• Highwater Island, west of
• Hotspur Island, 0.5 mile southeast of
• Hugh Miller Inlet, Glacier Bay
• Indian Reef
• Juneau Harbor, N of
• Juneau Harbor, S of
• Juneau Harbor, S of
• Kake Harbor
• Kakul Narrows
• Kalinin Point, 1 mile north of
• Karheen Passage, west of Cob Island
• Kashevarof Passage, north entrance
• Ketchikan
• Key Reef
• Killisnoo Harbor
• Kingsmill Point Light, 3 miles west of
• Klawock Narrows, north of Fish Egg Island
• Lincoln Rock Light, 1 mile west from
• Lindenberg Head
• Lion Point
• Lisianski Strait, north of Rock Point
• Lively Islands, west of
• Low Point, Taiya Inlet entrance
• Mabel Island, 3 miles west from
• Mariposa Reef, 3 miles south of
• McFarland Islands
• McHenry Ledge, 1 mile north of
• Meares Island, south of
• Mellen Rock, 1 mile east of
• Middle Point
• Midway Island
• Mill Creek
• Millar Rocks
• Miners Point
• Moira Rock, 2 miles east of
• Morris Reef, south of
• Mountain Point
• N of Ship Creek
• Narrow Point
• Narrows
• Niblack Islands
• Nismeni Point, 1 mile north of
• No Name Island, near Thoms Place
• North Inian Pass, east end
• North Inian Pass, middle
• North Inian Pass, west end
• North Pass, Lincoln Island
• North Passage
• Otstoia Island Light, 1 mile north of
• Pennock Island, East Channel
• Pennock Island, West Channel
• Peschani Point, 1 mile east of
• Piling Point, east of
• Pleasant Island, southwest of
• Point Alexander
• Point Arboleda, 1 mile west of
• Point Arden
• Point Astley, NE of, Tracy Arm
• Point Augusta, ESE of
• Point Benham, 1 mile east of
• Point Caution, 3 miles west of
• Point Coke, SE of, Tracy Arm
• Point Davidson, 1 mile south of
• Point Deception
• Point Elizabeth, 1 mile northeast of
• Point Ellis, 4 miles west of
• Point Gambier, 2 miles east of
• Point Gardner Light, 2 miles west of
• Point Highfield
• Point Hogan, South Passage
• Point Hugh
• Point Lockwood
• Point Marsh, 5 miles south from
• Point McCartey Light
• Point Phipp
• Point Retreat, 1 mile west of
• Point Rosary, west of
• Point Salisbury, west of
• Point Sherman, WSW of
• Point Siroi
• Point St. Albans, 3 miles SSE of
• Point St. Albans, 4 miles east of
• Point Sykes
• Point Thatcher, 3 miles east of
• Point Verde
• Point Warde
• Point Young
• Port Althrop entr, east of George Island
• Port Walter Light, 3 miles east of
• Portillo Channel
• Portland Inlet, 2 miles S. of Wales Pt
• Portland Island, SW of
• Povorotni Island, 0.23 n.mi. WSW of
• Prolewy Rocks
• Race Point, 0.7 mile ENE of
• Red Bay Entrance
• Round Island Light
• Round Point
• Ruins Point, 2 miles west of
• Saginaw Channel, 2 miles E of Point Retreat
• Saint Nicholas Channel, north
• Saint Nicholas Channel, south end
• San Christoval Chanel, Larz Lt., 0.25nm N of
• San Christoval Rock
• Saxman Spire, 0.2 mile south of
• Sea Otter Sound
• Sea Rock, 1 mile north of
• Sergius Narrows
• Shakan Light, 2.4 miles west of
• Shakan Light, 2.8 miles WNW of
• Shakan Strait Rock
• Shakan Strait, west end
• Ship Island
• Shipley Bay Entrance
• Shoe Rock, 1 mile north of
• Shrubby Island, east of
• Sinitsin Island
• Sisters Reef
• Sitka Harbor, channel off Harbor Island
• Skin Island, 3 miles east from
• Skookumchuck Pass
• Snipe Island
• Snow Passage Narrows
• Snow Passage, north entrance
• Snow Passage, southern approach
• South Craig Point
• South entrance
• South Inian Pass, east end
• South Inian Pass, west end
• South Ledge
• South Passage
• South Passage Point, 3 miles east of
• Southern entrance to Keku Strait
• Spike Rock
• Steamer Point, 1 mile west of
• Sukkwan Narrows
• Suloia Point, 0.32 n.mi. ENE of
• Summit Island, west of
• Sumner Island, 1.8 miles south of
• Sumner Island, east of
• Tantallon Point, SW of
• Tenass Island, 0.3 mile SSW of
• The Brother, east of
• The Brothers, 2 miles east of
• The Eye Opener
• The Five Fingers
• The Narrows
• The Narrows, west of
• The Sentinels, 1 mile west of
• Timbered Island
• Tlevak Narrows, Turn Point, east of
• Tokeen Bay
• Tongass Islands, east of, Nakat Bay
• Tonowek Narrows
• Toti Island, 1.1 miles west of
• Tracy Arm Bar
• Tree Point, 1 mile east of
• Turn Point
• Turn Point, Kootznahoo Inlet
• Turnabout Island
• Tuxekan Passage, 0.2 mile S of Tuxekan
• Tuxekan Passage, north of Kutegi Point
• Vanderbilt Reef, 2 miles west of
• Vank Island, off Neal Point
• Vexation Point, Woody Island
• Vichnefski Rock Light
• Village Islands
• Vixen Point, 3 miles west of
• Walden Rocks, 0.4 mile north of
• Wales Point, 2 miles south from
• Warren Channel
• Waterfall Cannery
• Webster Point, 1 mile west of
• West Channel (narrows)
• West Devil Rock, 2 miles north of
• West Juneau, NE of
• Western Channel
• Whale Rock, 1.0 nm SE of
• Wharburton Island
• White Point
• Whitestone Narrows, S of Whitestone Point
• Wrangell Harbor, 1.6 miles west of
• Wrangell Narrows (off Petersburg)
• Wyvill Reef
• Yakobi Rock, 1 mile west of
• Young Rock, 2 miles south of
• Zeal Point, 0.34 n.mi. SSW of

Boat launches

• Banana Point Boat Launch
• Bar Harbor
• Knudsen Cove Boat Ramp
• Papkes Landing
• Poor Mans Float
• Ramp (Inactive)
• Seaplane Ramp
• South Harbor Boat Launch
• Stikine Boat Launch
• Woodpecker Cove Boat Launch
• boat launch

Plus 46 unnamed launches on the map.

Marine forecast areas

Cape Decision to Cape Edgecumbe out to 15 NM · Cape Edgecumbe to Cape Spencer out to 15 NM · Cape Spencer to Cape Fairweather out to 15 NM · Clarence Strait · Cross Sound · Dixon Entrance East · Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision out to 15 NM · Frederick Sound · Glacier Bay · Icy Strait · Northern Chatham Strait · Northern Lynn Canal · Southern Chatham Strait · Southern Lynn Canal · Stephens Passage · Sumner Strait

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37 campsites and 58 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).