Cannery Point, also known as Icy Strait Point, is a port for cruise ships visiting the Hoonah area. This location has several shops, restaurants, and amenities available during the tourist season when there is a ship in port. The area provides a wide variety of habitats including coastal beaches, saltwater, and tidelands as well as freshwater ponds, meadows, and coniferous forests. There is a nature trail located behind the shops that provides an easy hike for birding in forest, meadow, and freshwater habitats away from the shoreline.

Birding at Cannery Point will offer opportunities for seabirds including a variety of gulls, Harlequin Duck, Marbled Murrelet, Black-legged Kittiwake, and Pigeon Guillemot. Upland meadow and forest passerines include a wide variety of warblers, sparrows, thrushes, and other passerines. A local birding guide company offers birding tours for cruise ship passengers stopping at Cannery Point in Hoonah.

Directions:

From Hoonah drive or walk 1.6 miles north on Front Street/Cannery Road to Cannery Point.

Trail Information:

•  Nature Trail Loop is a ½ mile loop trail.

Birding Resources:

•  eBird Hotspot: Cannery Point (Port Frederick off Icy Strait)

Bird Species Checklist:

• Hoonah checklist

Other Resources:

• Icy Strait Birding Tours