Alaska Excursions

Alaska Excursions

Wide range of glorious day trips throughout Southcentral Alaska.

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Photos and stories from the last great race.

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About Alaska

History & culture

A statue of a gold miner stands near the Old St. Joseph's Church in Nome. The church was built in 1901 and was later used as a storage building for a mining company.

Although Alaska's statehood is relatively brief, the state's history is long and colorful.

Shopping

Authentic arts and crafts created by Alaska Natives often are marked with a Silver Hand tag.

Alaska will no doubt inspire memories. But most visitors will want to take home something to help keep those memories fresh. An epic trip to the Great Land deserves a souvenir or two worthy of the excursion.

Moving to Alaska

Container ships bring vehicles and goods to the Port of Anchorage.

Moving to Alaska can be a big adventure.

Education in Alaska

The Great Room at the new Consortium Library at the University of Alaska Anchorage features a ceiling almost 35 feet high. Now it houses a computer lab, but in the future it will be an open study area.

Alaska has a public university system, with three main campuses and 15 local branches across the state, and a vo-tech school.

Alaska FAQs

Alaska.com's users have asked many good questions about life and vacations on the Last Frontier. Here are some of them.

Alaska by the book

The dangerous life of fishermen, part of the Alaska legend, appears in many  books about the state. Here, crewmen work a crab pot as the Aleutian Mariner takes a wave in the Bering Sea.

What's a vacation without a good book to read? When vacationing in Alaska, it might be a good idea to do some reading before arriving in the Great Land.

Places in Alaska

Alaska regions

Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, is seen just before sunset on a late March flightseeing trip. The south peak, right, is the summit at 20,320 feet; the north peak stands 19,470 feet high. Climbing season on the big mountain is May through July.

Alaska can be divided into five broad regions.

The Interior

The Alaska Range is the Interior's defining feature. In Denali National Park, Wonder Lake reflects Mount McKinley reflects at sunset.

This vast area is alive with gold mining and plenty of outdoor activities.

Alaska Photos

Springtime ice melt

After six months of a cold, dark winter, the extended sunlight in Alaska begins its work on the frozen-over region, melting away the ice and giving everything a glossy sheen.

Turnagain Arm

Ice is broken up along the shoreline of Portage Lake.Warm winter weather in the area diminished much of the ice and snow south of Anchorage. But what remained gleamed in the sunshine on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

Warm winter weather diminished much of the ice and snow south of Anchorage. But what remained gleamed in the sunshine on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, along Turnagain Arm, in Girdwood and on Portage Lake.

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