Sitka: Arrival, information and accommodation
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.
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