Alaska Tourism

Alaska Trooper Museum – Anchorage, Alaska

Alaska Trooper Museum – Anchorage, Alaska Have you ever given thought to what it must be like to be a State Trooper in a region as vast and rugged as Alaska? The Museum will take you back to the time when the Alaska Highway Patrol was formed in 1941. It went through a series of name... [Continue Reading]

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Whale Watching – Coastline, Alaska

Whale Watching – Coastline, Alaska While planning a trip to Alaska one of the things that you will want to make sure you schedule is time to go watch the whales along the coastline of Alaska. There are different times to see the various whales from when they begin their migration from the warm waters of... [Continue Reading]

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Visit the Past at Bering Land Bridge National Park – Bering, Alaska

Visit the Past at Bering Land Bridge National Park – Bering, Alaska When you are interested in learning about the past, say 12,000 calendar years past, you may want to visit Beringia in Alaska. During the Last Ice Age, the water level of the oceans were about 300 feet lower then they are today. This provided... [Continue Reading]

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Nunamiut Village – Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska

Nunamiut Village – Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska Situated at 2,200 feet elevation on the divide between the Anaktuvuk and John Rivers in the central Brooks Range sits the last remaining settlement of the Nunamiut Eskimos. The inland northern Inupiat Eskimo have lived in the area since at least 500 BC. It sits on a caribou migration route... [Continue Reading]

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Big Game Alaska Wildlife Center – Portage Glacier, Alaska

Big Game Alaska Wildlife Center – Portage Glacier, Alaska Taking care of the injured and orphaned wildlife of Alaska is a huge challenge but here, at the Big Game Alaska Wildlife Center, the animals get the care and protection they need. The Center is situated on 140 acres of Alaska wilderness and was opened to the... [Continue Reading]

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Bristol Bay – Dillingham, Alaska

Bristol Bay – Dillingham, Alaska In this pristine area of the state you have the opportunity to catch some of the freshest, best red salmon in the world. Dillingham is on the extreme northern end of Nushagak Bay on the northern edge of Bristol Bay. You can not only catch great fish in this area but... [Continue Reading]

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University of Alaska Museum of the North – Fairbanks, Alaska

University of Alaska Museum of the North – Fairbanks, Alaska The museum holds a collection of over 1.4 million artifacts and specimens showcasing the history of thousands of years of cultural traditions in the North. There are 10 disciplines represented. These consist of archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology/history, fine arts, fishes/marine invertebrates, insects, mammals,... [Continue Reading]

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El Dorado Gold Mine – Fairbanks, Alaska

The Lure of Alaska. Today people visit the state of Alaska because they know about its remarkable beauty and scenery, its fascinating native peoples, the wide variety of wildlife in its forests and surrounding waters, and to taste its wonderful native specialty foods. Originally, however many people traveled to Alaska to benefit from its natural... [Continue Reading]

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Baranov Museum – Kodiak, Alaska

Historic Alaska. Alaska is one of America’s fifty states, but it wasn’t always populated strictly by American citizens. The state’s many diverse natural regions have distinct and ancient populations of native peoples, the area was also considered Russian territory for many years, and the history of the state is full of the influences of the... [Continue Reading]

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Alaska Museum of Natural History – Anchorage, Alaska

The Natural History of Alaska. The history of Alaska frequently brings to mind the native peoples, the “Gold Rush” period and the remarkable ice fields and glaciers still at work today. Where can someone go to get a good summary of the state’s cultural, ecological and geological history? Just outside of Anchorage is the Alaska Museum... [Continue Reading]

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