Best Hummingbird Gardens in Ketchikan Gateway Borough County, Alaska

Each April, the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center in Ketchikan becomes the hub of the Alaska Hummingbird Festival — a month-long celebration of the Rufous Hummingbird's return to the northernmost hummingbird range in the world. Rufous Hummingbirds migrate up the Pacific Coast from their Mexican wintering grounds, arriving in Ketchikan and the greater Tongass National Forest in April to breed through the summer. Festival activities include guided bird walks, live banding demonstrations, a juried art show, and family education programs — all free to the public. The surrounding Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States, provides the ancient temperate rainforest backdrop that makes Alaska hummingbird encounters feel truly wild and extraordinary.

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