Funny thing about Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. Although the site’s mountains, fjords, rugged coastlines, and marquee glaciers attract more than 700,000 annual visitors, the vast majority of them never set foot on land. More than 95% of parkgoers come aboard cruise ships that aren't allowed to dock in the nature reserve. Instead, National Park…
Heidi Sarna is the co-founder of QuirkyCruise.com, a guide to small-ship cruising. In business for decades, family-owned American Cruise Lines (ACL), which devotes itself exclusively to the rivers and coastal areas of the United States, is well known for small-ship voyages in traditional U.S. cruising territory—the mighty Mississippi River, coastal Maine, and the Columbia and…