Justin Walter - Your Bucket List Guide

The most beautiful zipline course in the world. 🌿✨

Mossy rainforest, waterfalls, river canyons… feels like flying through a fairy tale.

Taking a helicopter to Meade Glacier transports you to another planet. 🚁🧊

One of the most accessible glacier landings in Alaska where the helicopter flies you over out-of-this-world scenery that you then get to explore on foot.

Meade Glacier is fed by multiple glaciers flowing into it as a part of the massive 1,500 square mile Juneau Ice Field. Before space travel becomes a thing, this is about as close to landing on the moon as you can get on earth.

Glaciers, gold rush train rides, and fairytale forests. This is Skagway.

Population 1,000. Dramatic mountains. Gold Rush history you can actually feel. And epic outdoor adventures - ziplining, helicopter rides, scenic trains, bike riding into the mountains.

There’s something magical about a small mountain town with this much adventure. Put it on your bucket list immediately.

Where dogs are professional athletes, not pets. 🐺

Juneau has a working Iditarod training camp where you can spend the afternoon with the actual sled dogs. These are the same dogs that run 1,000 miles across Alaska in one of the most extreme races on the planet. It’s one of the only places you can actually train these athletes.

5 must-do adventures in Juneau, the only U.S. state capital you can’t reach by car.

Save this for your Alaska trip.

Size matters.

Mendenhall Glacier does not disappoint. From the ground, stunning. From a helicopter above, a different planet.

Can you guess which city in Alaska black bears outnumber humans 2 to 1?

If this doesn’t convince you to visit Ketchikan, I don’t know what will. Between the black bears, seaplanes, and RZR trails, this place is unreal. If it’s not on your bucket list yet, change that.

Honest confession: I completely underestimated Ketchikan.

Black bears, the legendary lumberjack show, ancient rainforests, and eagle sightings that don’t feel real. You can pack more into this spot than most people do in a full vacation.

Don’t sleep on the Salmon Capital of the World, there’s adventure around every corner here. The fish aren’t the only ones getting hooked!

When Jennifer Hudson asked me how I got started in travel, this was the real answer.

I was a Midwest kid watching Survivor and dreaming about places I’d never been.

That show cracked something open in me. It made me dream bigger. I didn’t know it at the time, but that spark would turn into a life built around exploring the world and eventually talking about it on The Jennifer Hudson Show.

Celebrating and grateful for the flame that started it all.