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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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

Stuart Highway

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.

Anchorage, Alaska's largest city

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.)

Seward and Kenai Fjords National Park

Seward

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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