It is about 40 miles west of Juneau .
Commercial fishing is the main activity here, with a large cold storage facility.
Seiners and trollers homeport in the quiet harbor, also popular with boaters waiting to enter Glacier Bay, where access to recreational boaters is limited in summer months in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve . Hoonah is a Tlinglit village and many families do subsistence fishing, hunting and berry picking. There are extensive roads and logging on the rest of Chichagof Island. Below are additional pages related to this one.