Alaska
Attractions
Explore Alaska and Discover the
Beauty
Alaska has an alluring beauty
all its' own, considered to be one of the last untouched places
in the world. It also contains first class hotels, dining, and
more in the heart of Southcentral. Anchorage, Alaska is the
starting point for many great wilderness, sightseeing and
fishing adventures.
Adventure Guide Alaska is your doorway to exploring the
magnificent beauty of Alaska. Filled with useful articles and
tips on topics such as fishing, sightseeing, and resources to
assist you in making your journey a meaningful and rewarding
one. Please stop in, look around, and gather what you need.
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and find whatever your heart desires in one of the most
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One of the main Alaska tourist attractions is of course
the Alaskan Outdoors itself.
But Alaska is a huge place. Most of the state could be
classified as Outdoors. If you want to see "the great Alaskan
Outdoors" you will have to focus on one part of it, you can't
see it all...
This page gives you an overview of the major tourist
attractions of Alaska. To find out more just follow the
links.
Top Tourist Attractions In Alaska

Most of the top tourist attractions in the Alaskan
Outdoors can be reached from the Glenn, Richardson, Park, and
Seward Highways, the famous road that dissects Alaska from
the north to the south from the North its Glenn highway leading
to the Richardson to Canada, and south its the Seward Highway
where it ends at the shores of Alaska in Homer.
For a truly exciting adventure, the marine highway (shipping
lanes) takes you from Seattle in the south east of Alaska to
the Aleutians in the West. Juneua, the capital of Alaska ,
resides off the "Inside Passage" of the marine highway, nearly
exactly half way between Seattle and Anchorage: 1390 km from
Anchorage, and 1400 from Seattle.
If you want to discover the Alaskan Outdoors and have
little time then Anchorage is the place to start.
Many Outdoor Alaska tourist attractions are close to Anchorage
and within a days drive if renting a car or motorhome.

I personally consider Anchorage a top Alaskan tourist
attraction in its own right. If you want to take more away from
your Outdoors trip than your Uluru sunset shot and souvenir
T-shirt, then you should visit the Anchorage before you visit
anything else.
Denali National Park

But there is no doubt that Denali
National Park is the single most famous tourist
attraction in Alaska, and for many people Denali is the only
reason to visit Alaska in the first place. Make you sure you
allow enough time for Denali. It's not as close to Anchorage as
a lot of people think! (The distance is about 450 km.)
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Seward and Kenai
Fjords National Park
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Seward is a
picturesque town 127 miles (204.4 km) south
of Anchorage. It is surrounded by high
mountain ranges and lies at the edge of
Resurrection Bay and at the base of Mount
Marathon. It is known as the "Gateway to
Kenai Fjords National Park." Downtown Seward
has a frontier-town atmosphere with some
buildings dating back to the early 1900's.
The town was established in 1903 by railroad
surveyors as an ocean terminal and supply
center. The city was named for US Secretary
of State William H Seward, who was a major
player in purchasing Alaska from Russia in
1867. Alaska didn't become a state until
1959! It is our 49th state. Resurrection Bay
is a year-round ice-free harbor and Seward
is an important cargo and fishing port.
Seward's economy depends on tourism, a coal
terminal, a sawmill, fisheries, and
government offices. Photo: Taken from
Miller's Landing campground directly across
Resurrection Bay in early June,
1996.
If you're in Seward on the
4th of July watch (or join) the annual
Mount Marathon Race. This grueling
endurance race goes up and then down Mount
Marathon (3,022 feet/921 meters). The race
is said to have begun in 1909 with a wager
between 2 sourdoughs as to how long it
would take to run up and down Mt. Marathon.
(A sourdough was a prospector or settler of
that time who usually lived alone and
subsisted on sourdough bread). The fastest
recorded time is 43 minutes, 23 seconds set
in 1981 by Bill Spencer. The descent is so
steep that it's part run, part jump, part
slide, usually in a bloody mess from
scrapes and cuts. Competitors come from all
over and thousands of spectators line the
route each year.
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