Amalga Harbor near Juneau, Alaska (© Mark Kelley/Tandem Stills + Motion)

【December 24 2015】At Amalga Harbor, a few miles up Glacier Highway from Alaska’s capital, the waters lap the shores of Ernest Gruening State Historical Park. The park was established primarily to preserve the site of Gruening’s cabin, where the future senator wrote his 1953 manifesto on why Alaska should be a state. Of course, that story has a happy ending. And the story about the person who decorated a tree on a mini-barge set afloat here in Amalga Harbor? That we don’t know. But it makes for a delightful scene on Christmas Eve.Explore breathtaking Gallery from the HuluTrip homepage over the past 5 years..