HEY AM FROM THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND I SPENT SUMMER 08 IN JUNEAU AND OMG! I LOVE IT!THE WEATHER IS JUS SO GREAT.... ALL MY LIFE THE TEMP IS LIKE IN THE 90s DAILY AND BOY CUD I DO WITH SOME 40s and lower
My boyfriend was born in Juneau and when he spoke of the magic of the town,I wanted to have some sort of mental picture to see it as he did...Well, this video pretty much captured the Juneau he remembered...THANK YOUUUU>>>
thanks for the summer tour. I came to Juneau this last winter for 3 months... and it is nice to see it in Green.... although I must admit that I LOVED winter white. Hope to visit soon... but in the meantime... your vids bring it back for me. Thanks.
I had been Google-Earthing Juneau and my impression was that it was a fair Northwestern town without many attractions, but this video completely changed my idea of what Juneau is! It looks colorful, merry, enchanting, and has a very special charm. I definitely want to visit it during the summer. Now I'm under the impression that as a touristic destination it is underestimated.
I was wondering what downtown Juneau would look like if I drove through it, you've done that for me, thank you. I'd love to see a higher quality version, I'm wondering what the trees look like is all, wanna feel it.
Sound or no sound, I'll bet that the time spent was great !! All 2 and a half months of it, summer only was that long and if you had an indian summer it lasted up to 3 and a half months, great video and thanks for posting.
It would have been great with sound. I loved going downtown juneau when I lived there and I also loved the vally. All of it was just so beautiful I can not describe it's beauty if I wanted to.
hey i remember walking and driving up and down these streets.. Omg! the food at The Hanger is so great. I miss all my friends at Diamonds International.
I live in Reno, But grew up in the Yukon, Canada, Spent lot's of time traveling as a child with my parent's all through Alaska , Yukon, Northern & Southern B.C. My Dad is a Artist he drew Black & White Post card's of all most all of the Lodges along the Alaska hwy.Top of the world hwy. & on & on . It was amazing. My husband & I desperately want to come home.We hate NV. with a passion. Hoping to come back to AK. though , It's simply amazing.
lol, I live in Juneau, and it's funny to see people get so excited about taking a drive downtown... at 2:19 in the video, you pass El Sombrero, lol. That's like the best Mexican restaurant in town...
I loved it for the 3 months I got to live in Juneau. It was really amazing, except for the rain. But the rain couldn't have ruined the hiking, climbing, biking, and kayaking the area provided.
@bfluetsch not to mention the fact that even in the winter you will see more rain than snow, and it always snows, then it rains to make nice slush then freezes right after to turn loop road and any side street into a slot car track where you dont even have to use the steering wheel lol. I miss the winter driving up there. Not the weather though, ill drive to the mountains to fuck off in the snow with my truck now.
We had 3-4 inches of snow in mid October but it has warmed up to the 40's. Winters here are not brutal ugly cold like it is up north. Most of the time temps are between 15-40 degrees. It can be windy. Snow is nice because it brightens an otherwise dark environment. The dark and lack of sun is what makes living here in winter so hard, not the weather.
I just read that the population is just over 31,000. Do you guys have a college there? I am just plain curious. What about movie theaters? How did the city get up to 31K? I would assume that people would have left with the lack of prospects but the population has been steadily going up. How is life over there? Do you have an airport? How far are you from Anchorage? It's interesting that a city 1/10th the size of Anchorage is the capital. It looks like an interesting place to live.
lol the R2-D2 mailbox was in there, i remember when that was on the front page of the paper when i lived there with some fanboy/girl dressed as a storm trooper posing next to it.
i've heard there are a lot of gangs in Anchorage, but there aren't really any here in Juneau. There's not much serious crime; a lot less crime than down south. We usually get a few snow days every winter, but it's usually just because the roads aren't cleared enough to drive on... the hottest temp i think we've gotten so far this year was like a week and a half ago. it got up to 80-84 degrees. it usually stays within the 55-75 range all summer, but it's mostly overcast and sometimes rainy.
What is it like? Is it very warm in summer? Is there good Hiking Is there a lot of homeless people? How about music? Are the winters bearable? how about the accent do people speak with any unique accent?
i have been here when i went on a cruise. though I didnt do much looking around the town as we didnt spend that long there (that is, after I had done the activity.)
68-58 High and Low. Average temperature is probably 62 degrees. We had one day this summer hit 78. Our summer climate is heaven on earth if you do not like the heat. That is all three months starting in June. Believe it or not, May is usually our best month as far as warm and not raining.
you don't know what ya got til it's gone. We have some of the best shopping ever here in vegas but it doesn't make up for all the dirt, heat, and lack of any life.
@domandhisipod Wow, I thought I was the only Vegas girl who missed Juneau...didn't know there were so many here. I spent too many years there to not have it in my blood. I HATE the summers in Vegas and am happy for videos like this to make me think of Juneau even more than I do. Vegas is lame.
I applied there for a job. It looks so peaceful. I hope I get the job over there so I can move out from Vegas and embrace the nature even if it gets really cold. At least there is nature to see, unlike here, it's all casinos.
I can't believe how many people from Vegas have commented here. I'm in Vegas right now as well and I thought I was the only one interested in Juneau. It is a small city after all. I can't stand the desert. The summer heat is horrible, you can't even touch your car in the summer, and forgot about sitting on leather seats. the only beach we have is a green man-made lake that's an hour away. I want to see water and snow and trees, not dirt and dry bushes. our wildlife is black widows and scorpions.
not really. It rains a lot. YEA! Theres a million hiking trails up here. we've got our share of homeless people. they mostly live downtown. Our music scene pretty much sucks. Yea the winters are bearable if you've got a warm coat. It snows a lot. then it rains, so it gets iced over. I dont think we've got accents but someone who lives somewhere else might.
Oregon is like that too. A person would normally think that Salem (200,000) would not be the capital, that Portland would be (millions). I've been doing some research on Juneau myself (about 40 hours) and I even had an internet conversation with their admin. They do have a college, but it's a joke (it's a damn good college, but no real majors). They have an airport (it's locked in actually). They have a theater. The life is reasonable, so-so. I'll take OR. over AK though, close tie.
@sxv32idf lived there 2 years then again for 6 more years, never heard of any mudslides, yes you cant drive out but it isnt so bad, the fairy is multiple times a day. the only cities in southeast alaska that have roads to anchorage are haines and skagway if you wanna call them cities...more like villiages.
World-famous chanteuse Lynda Zeno crossing the street from 3:11 to 3:13 -- and to think that I saw it on RU-vid! She used to front that awesome Petersburg band Menagerie at Kito's Kave back in 2001 or so, but they weren't together long (the drummer was a real dick.)
