Inside Passage

American  

1. a natural sheltered waterway used as a sea route along the U.S.-Canadian coast, extending from Seattle, Washington, to Skagway, Alaska. 950 miles (1,529 km) long.

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Example Sentences

Cruising the Inside Passage typically includes stops in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, and sometimes Sitka, along with a British Columbia port if your cruise sails from the United States.

From Salon

“Sitka is nestled right along the Alaska coast, with the ocean on one side, and the Inside Passage on the other,” Kingfisher says on its website.

From Seattle Times

For the truly daring, there’s the 500-mile run through the Inside Passage to Alaska.

From Seattle Times

Lives Lived: Jonathan Raban, a British author who traveled to the Middle East, down the Mississippi River and to Alaska’s Inside Passage, said he was not a “travel writer.”

From New York Times

Known as the North Shore Inside Passage, the sparsely populated region has a craggy coastline of thick boreal forest, interspersed with billion-year-old bedrock and small artisan communities.

From New York Times