Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness

Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness are federally designated wilderness areas on Kuiu Island in Southeast Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, managed together as a single protected area covering about 200 square miles across the island’s interior and coast. Created by Congress in 1980 and 1990, they preserve a landscape shaped by glaciation and the sea, with steep mountains, deep fjords, coastal estuaries, old-growth temperate rainforest, muskeg, subalpine meadows, and alpine tundra near the ocean. Long before European colonization, substantial Tlingit populations lived on Kuiu Island, especially around Tebenkof Bay. The area remains largely undeveloped and is reached mainly by boat or floatplane.

Point Baker, Alaska · United States