Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city, home to roughly 290,000 people, about 40% of the state’s total population. Located in south-central Alaska on Cook Inlet and ringed by the Chugach Mountains, it’s the state’s main air gateway and the starting or ending point for most visitor itineraries. Getting There Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is […]
Kodiak Island sits off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula and is best known for the Kodiak brown bear, one of the largest bears in the world, along with a large commercial fishing fleet and deep Russian and Alutiiq history. Getting There Kodiak has no road connection to the rest of Alaska. Most visitors
Prince William Sound is a glacier-carved body of water in south-central Alaska, ringed by the Chugach Mountains and dotted with tidewater glaciers. The main gateway towns are Valdez, at the end of the Richardson Highway, and Whittier and Cordova, both reached mostly by ferry or a single tunnel. Getting There Valdez is about 305 miles
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, in south-central Alaska near the Canadian border, is the largest national park in the United States at over 13 million acres — roughly the size of six Yellowstones. It’s a park of superlatives: it contains four major mountain ranges, nine of the sixteen highest peaks in the U.S. (including
Fairbanks, Alaska’s second-largest city, sits in the state’s interior at the confluence of the Chena and Tanana Rivers. It’s a common base for two very different reasons: winter aurora viewing and summer access to the far north. Getting There Fairbanks International Airport has direct flights from Seattle, Anchorage, and a few other West Coast cities,
