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This is a small place. You'll probably visit this on an excursion with your cruise ship. Our complaint was our guide was young, new and very rough with her driving and not good with time management. This however, was not a takeaway for the park. It's quiet, interesting and shows the culture and history of the area. They have bathrooms, a rather large gift shop with friendly staff. You can learn a lot of information on totem poles, their meaning and values here. Though, I'm not sure if you would get as much information without a guide as there are no plaques explaining things. We actually learned most of it by listening to another guide 😏. If you have the time, it's worth the look if you want to see and learn about totems. There's nothing else in the "Park" so if that's not your thing, skip it. We did this as part of the city tour /lumber jack show.
Very interesting and informative, the art work on the totem poles where amazing specially considering the tools they used. The old cars were cool too
Our tour guide from Ketchikam Native Tours was a beautiful woman named Syd. She is married to a Tlingit Man who carves Totems. I'm adding this here because She was Amazing. She drove us to various sites and knew history we would never learn unless the guide was deeply involved with native traditions. This Park is full of history and beauty. Just walking among the Totems you realize that all things in nature are important. It's not only how you use nature, but how you return it back to itself. The meanings of the Totems, the characters on them, the colors and even the placement of where they are all have meaning. I really enjoyed this Park, the history and what it represents. If you are spiritual in any way, go here you will not regret it.
Nice relatively small park with great views by the water. It was very easy finding the city bus stop from the cruise ship terminal which was only about a 5 min walk. $2 each way and the city bus drops you right at Totem Bight Park. There's a machine (looks like a parking machine) that takes card payment for the $5 park admission fee. Nice short forest trail about a 10-15 minute loop through the park. If you walk a bit past the entry to the park you'll come to a large gift shop with a small museum. Definitely worth checking out.
