Cordova sits at the end of the road — which is to say, off it entirely. No highway connects it to the rest of Alaska; you arrive by ferry across Prince William Sound or by floatplane, the way people always have. The town wraps around a small-boat harbor on Orca Inlet, under Eyak Mountain and beside Lake Eyak, in a temperate rainforest that takes on something like a hundred and sixty inches of rain a year. Beyond it spread the Copper River Delta — one of the great shorebird stopovers on the continent — and the glaciers, and the Sound.
Today Cordova is a working fishing town at the edge of the wild — harbor and rainforest, glaciers and delta, and the best wild salmon on earth running past its door. Our Cordova designs gather that identity — the bear emblem, the Million Dollar Bridge, the Copper River reds — into wearable form. Cordova, Alaska — end of the road, home of the Copper River reds, where the rails once ran for copper and the salmon still run wild.
Why People Visit Cordova
Cordova rewards travelers who want the real, working edge of Alaska: a fishing fleet at the dock, glaciers and a great river delta within reach, world-class birding and salmon, and a town you have to make an effort to reach. Bring rain gear and time.
