Alaska's regions
Interior Alaska
Sprawling area includes Fairbanks and Denali National Park
Alaska.com
Interior Alaska -- the hub of Alaska -- has just about everything that epitomizes the Last Frontier.
There is gold mining, which started before the Klondike rush and continues enthusiastically today, especially around Fairbanks. Denali National Park, containing North America's tallest peak, sprawls along the Alaska Range south of Fairbanks.
The great Yukon River flows westward across the region from Canada toward the Bering Sea. Waterfowl by the million nest in the drainages of the Yukon and other rivers of the Interior.
The Interior, for our purposes, is the area south of the Arctic Circle, north of the Alaska Range, west of Canada and (arbitrarily) east of 154 degrees west longitude.
Wildlife
Denali National Park is famous for its wildlife: grizzly bears, wolves, caribou and moose -- and those animals live throughout the forests and tundra of the Interior.
Drivers should especially watch for moose and caribou; bears and wolves will be harder to spot from the highway but may be seen on forays into the wilderness.
Oil
The trans-Alaska pipeline crosses vertically through the region, delivering oil south from Prudhoe Bay and on down the historic Richardson Highway to Valdez.
Outdoors
The Interior is an outdoors-oriented region. Activities include fishing, hunting, hiking, camping with or without RVs, rafting, golf, snowmobiling, dog-sled riding, skiing, birding and gold panning.
Attractions
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