Totem to Totem Half Marathon

The long, mountainous and forested shoreline of the Tongass Narrows waterway is the setting for the annual springtime running of Ketchikan's Totem to Totem Half Marathon, a 13.1-mile race that takes runners along a point-to-point course that starts in Totem Bight State Historical Park just northeast of the city and finishes at Rotary Beach Park, just southeast of the Saxman community. All along the way, runners can expect to catch ample glimpses of one of the local features for which the area is well-known -- totem poles, which they'll see most prominently around the starting area at Totem Bight State Park and around Saxman Village as they near the finish line.