If you have one week in Alaska and you want to experience as much of the state’s natural character as possible, the Kenai Peninsula is your answer. Stretching south from Anchorage into the Gulf of Alaska, the Kenai packs more diversity of landscape and outdoor experience into its borders than most states manage in their […]

In the summer of 1897, word reached the outside world that gold had been discovered in the Klondike region of Canada’s Yukon Territory. Within months, over 100,000 prospectors converged on a small tidal flat at the head of the Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. They called the place Skagway. Today Skagway has a year-round population

Prince William Sound is a vast, protected body of water on Alaska’s southcentral coast, sheltered from the open Gulf of Alaska by the Kenai Peninsula to the west and the Chugach Mountains to the north. Its 3,800 miles of coastline encompasses active tidewater glaciers, ancient fjords, island archipelagos, and waters teeming with sea otters, Steller

At the northern end of the Lynn Canal — the longest and deepest fjord in North America — lies Haines, a small town of about 2,500 people surrounded by some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in Southeast Alaska. Unlike its neighbour Skagway just 15 miles away by water, Haines is connected to the Alaska

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