Juneau has 30,000 people, several glaciers near hiking trails, one bridge to Douglas Island, an aiport, and dead-end roads. If you want to bring your car to Juneau, you'll have to put it on a barge or a ferry first.
Auke and Taku people have lived here for thousands of years. After gold was found, a mining camp sprang up. The town was organized in 1881. By the turn of the century, the placer miners had wandered on, but large underground mines were being developed. Juneau was a gritty mining town up through the 1940s. The mines shut down (under wartime orders, not considered essential).
After the completion of the Alyeska pipeline (to take petroleum from the Arctic shore to the Pacific coast), Juneau grew with the growth of state government.
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