Meyers Chuck is a remote, roadless coastal community in Alaska where year-round residents rely on commercial fishing, seasonal tourism, and floatplanes or skiffs for groceries and supplies from Ketchikan.
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What do residents in Meyers Chuck do for a living, and how do they get groceries and supplies?
Living: Most of the year-round population (often under 10–15 people in winter) are retirees, commercial fishermen, artists/writers, or work seasonal tourism/lodge jobs in the summer. A lot of the houses are actually summer-only cabins.
Groceries & supplies: Almost entirely out of Ketchikan:
- The mail plane: The scheduled floatplane brings in regular mail, parcels, and boxes of groceries ordered ahead from Ketchikan stores.
- Supply runs: Residents run their own skiffs down Clarence Strait to Ketchikan when the weather allows to haul back bulk goods, fuel drums, and heavy freight, or arrange for a commercial freight barge/landing craft for major building materials.
There are no stores, no restaurants, and no roads—everything has to come in over a dock.