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Taku Glacier Lodge Flight and Feast

A floatplane leaves the downtown waterfront, flies over five glaciers in the Juneau Icefield, and lands on the river at the historic Taku Glacier Lodge.

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By Greg Peters, editor · Updated October 2026 · Ratings checked October 18, 2026

#7 Highly rated · ranked 7 of 17 Juneau excursions

A floatplane leaves the downtown waterfront, flies over five glaciers in the Juneau Icefield, and lands on the river at the historic Taku Glacier Lodge. You spend about two hours there eating salmon grilled over an alder fire and walking the grounds before flying back.

Tour details

TypeFlightseeing
How longAbout 3 to 3.5 hours, including roughly 2 hours at the lodge
SeasonSummer; season dates not stated on the pages checked
Good forA splurge for food lovers and anyone wanting glaciers from the air without a helicopter landing. Weight limit about 300 lb per person; not wheelchair accessible.
Rating4.9 / 5 from 299 reviewsViator (Viator and Tripadvisor reviews combined), checked October 18, 2026
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Times and policies from viator.com, tripadvisor.com, getyourguide.com, checked October 18, 2026. They change; the booking page has the final word.

Leaves from the seaplane dock right downtown, so no shuttle is needed, but flights go only in safe, clear-enough weather.

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Map: where this excursion meets

The 3D map shows the walk here from the Cruise Ship Terminal north berth. Expand it to pick your dock and explore.

Map: USGS elevation; streets and buildings © OpenStreetMap contributors.

How we ranked it

On October 18, 2026, we looked up every Juneau excursion on Viator, Tripadvisor and GetYourGuide and noted its star rating and number of reviews. We used the numbers for the specific tour, not an operator's total across everything it sells. Because Tripadvisor reviews also show up in Viator's totals, each tour gets a single Viator or Tripadvisor figure, with GetYourGuide counted on its own. We sorted tours into rating bands first, then put the most-reviewed tours at the top of each band, so a new tour with a few five-star reviews doesn't jump ahead of one with thousands of strong ones. The Goldbelt Tram was closed on the day we checked, so it isn't ranked. Reviews stay on the sites that host them; the links take you there. Operators can't pay to be listed or to move up.

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