Juneau was founded as a mining camp in 1880 and named after a gold prospector and the town’s co-founder, Joe Juneau. With a population of only 32,000, the downtown of Alaska’s capital city is very walkable. There are 42 buildings that were built from 1889 through 1939 that huddle side-by-side along a couple of narrow streets that run parallel to the Gastineau Channel.
