Wrangell does not try to impress you. There are no large cruise ship docks, no jewellery stores hawking tourist trinkets, and no scripted cultural performances. What Wrangell offers instead is something far more valuable: an honest, working Alaskan town with 10,000 years of indigenous history, remarkable wildlife, and accessible wilderness. Located on the northern tip […]
Perched at the tip of a narrow spit of land jutting five miles into Kachemak Bay, Homer is one of those rare places that feels like it was designed specifically to make people happy. The bay is framed by snow-capped mountains and active volcanoes on one side and rolling green hillsides on the other. Homer
Kodiak Island sits in the Gulf of Alaska about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage, and it operates on a completely different scale from anywhere else in the state. This is an island slightly larger than the state of Connecticut, home to fewer than 14,000 people, and inhabited by the densest population of brown bears in
There is a reason mountaineers from around the world fly into Talkeetna before attempting to climb Denali. Sitting at the confluence of three rivers at the edge of the Alaska Range, this small town of fewer than 900 people offers one of the most dramatic mountain backdrops on earth. On a clear day the view
Alaska FAQs Guide was created out of a simple conviction: that Alaska is one of the most extraordinary places on earth, and that travellers deserve accurate, practical information to help them experience it well. The state of Alaska is vast — larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined — and extraordinarily diverse. The experiences available
