Hoonah Harbor

Hoonah is the only first-class city on Chichagof Island and the 5th largest island in the United States. Incorporated in 1946 as the City of Hoonah, it began as a Tlingit village, given then name Xunaa because it was a safe haven, protected from the North Wind. In In 1754, the Huna Tlingit people permanently settled twenty miles south of Glacier Bay, to Hoonah where they subsistence-harvested each summer. Located in Alaska’s panhandle in the southeast region of the state, Hoonah has mild winters and rainy summers. It is 40 miles west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage.