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
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
