• Image of visitor center and totem poles

    Sitka

    National Historical Park Alaska

Currents of Change

On an island amid towering spruce and hemlock, Sitka National Historical Park preserves the site of a battle between invading Russian traders and indigenous Kiks.ádi Tlingit; park visitors are awed by Tlingit and Haida totem poles standing along the park’s scenic coastal trail; and the restored Russian Bishop’s House speaks of Russia’s little known colonial legacy in North America.

Did You Know?

Photograph of a shrew

Some species of shrews, the smallest of all mammals, weigh as little as 5/100 ounce, or half the weight of a penny.