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ABOUT ALASAKA

ALASKA is as diverse as the state is big. It offers tourists endless options. Whether you want to explore Alaska’s vibrant Native culture (its art, totem carving, dancing, music or museums) or other artistic and intellectual attractions like music festivals, local artisan handiwork, Russian iconography or museum exhibits, there is a long list of things to do and see. Not many states can list the continent’s tallest mountain (Mount McKinley in Denali National Park), one of the country’s longest rivers (the mighty Yukon), Santa Claus’ home and America’s national symbol, the Bald Eagle, on their "must do and see" list. Some other Alaska icons are Glacier Bay's Great Whales, The Chilkoot Gold Rush Trail, Soldier's Summit on the Alaska Highway, the North Pole and dog mushing, and the Prince William Sound Glaciers.

Alaska's largest city, ANCHORAGE, offers a number of historical attractions including the Alaska Museum of Natural History, the Independence Mine State Historical Park, celebrating the importance of gold in the history of Alaska, and The Historic Iditarod/Crow Pass Trail.

DENALI NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE's more than 6-million acres includes North America's highest mountain, Mount McKinley, many large glaciers, and a complete sub-arctic ecosystem.

A testament to the mining spirit of the gold fever of 1902, FAIRBANKS attractions feature the University of Alaska Museum of the North, with pioneer relics, Native artifacts, and displays of wildlife, the El Dorado Gold Mine, where visitors can take a narrow gauge train through a perma-frost tunnel, and Pioneer Park, an indoor facility with Pioneer and Goldrush exhibits.

GLACIER BAY features some of the world's most impressive examples of tidewater glaciers.

At the base of grand mountain peaks and at the pristine waterfront of the Gastineau Channel, JUNEAU, Alaska's capital city, offers the Alaska State Museum with Native art and artifacts, gold rush memorabilia, Russian relics and wildlife displays, and the Juneau-Douglas City Museum.

A popular destination along Alaska's famed Inside Passage, KETCHIKAN is known as Alaska's Native Cultural Center and Sport Fishing Capital. Historical tours include the Creek Street tour which winds through the old boardwalk red-light district and Dolly’s House Museum, and boat tours of the city built on "stilts" to secluded bootlegger coves of the Gold Rush days. Surrounded by rolling hills of Arctic tundra, NOME is popular with gold panners on the beaches.

The Begich-Boggs Visitor Center at the PORTAGE GLACIER, 50 miles south of Anchorage, has some fascinating exhibits.

SEWARD is one of Alaska’s oldest and most scenic communities; the Resurrection Bay Historical Society/Museum features exhibits about Seward and its role in Alaska's gold rushes. Considered Alaska's most beautiful seaside town, SITKA displays a past unique in its blend of Tlingit culture and Russian history.

One of the Inside Passage’s most popular towns, historic SKAGWAY brings the Gold Rush era alive with Broadway, a street from yesteryear, and the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, a steep, narrow-gauge railroad following much the same route as the gold miners on their way to the Klondike Gold Rush.

The SOLDOTNA visitor information center, located on the banks of the Kenai River where the world record King Salmon was caught, has a photo display of the Peninsula, a wildlife collection, maps and gift shop.

An outdoor adventurer’s paradise, VALDEZ offers hiking, jogging, mountain biking, or cross-country skiing along gold mining trails at Mineral Creek Canyon, and rafting in Keystone Canyon.