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ALASKA LISA MALONEY Contents Index List of Maps Discover Alaska Juneau and Southeast Alaska Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska Denali, Fairbanks, and the Interior Kodiak and Southwest Alaska The Arctic Alaska Wildlife Background Essentials Resources Photo Credits Copyright baby bear in a tree St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau DISCOVER Alaska 15 TOP EXPERIENCES Planning Your Trip TRAVEL LIFELINES: ROADS, FERRIES, PLANES, AND REGIONAL HUBS Best of Alaska IF YOU HAVE . . . ALASKA’S TOP TOWNS Best Hikes BEAR VIEWING Best Scenic Drives THE ALASKA RAILROAD The Inside Passage CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS Explore the Interior ALASKAN CRUISE PORTS OF CALL Denali is North America’s tallest peak. What are the first things that come to mind when you think of Alaska? Steep- walled fjords, charismatic bears, soaring eagles, breaching whales, or glaciers creeping down the side of a mountain and into the sea? Then you’re already in tune with some of our state’s grandest sights. But there’s so much to Alaska that it can’t possibly be summed up in just one image—and every part of the state is a little bit different. In Southeast Alaska the evergreen rainforest dominates the landscape and totem poles stand silent witness to humpback whales, each one the size of a school bus, cavorting in the glacier-fed waters. Southcentral Alaska and the Interior are a road-tripper’s dream clad in boreal forest, with paved two-lane highways leading from Fairbanks—land of gold mining, the midnight sun, and the aurora borealis dancing overhead—to Homer, the pinnacle of Alaskan art, food, and fishing in one small town. Southwest Alaska holds some of the state’s best bear watching on Kodiak Island —also known as Alaska’s Emerald Isle—and nearby Katmai National Park. You’ll also find some of the continent’s best bird-watching at Unalaska/Dutch Harbor and on the remote, windy Pribilof Islands, where millions of seabirds and more than half the world’s fur seals congregate to breed. seal in Valdez wolf in Denali National Park seal in Valdez wolf in Denali National Park dog sled in Denali National Park In Arctic Alaska, people are outnumbered by the caribou that migrate en masse between their winter ranges and summer breeding grounds. Small planes are the only way to travel between remote communities that still hold deep roots in traditional Native ways, and dog sleds are still a viable mode of winter transportation, although the iron dog—the snowmobile to anyone else, but “snowmachine” to Alaskans—reigns supreme. As amazing, exotic, and even otherworldly as Alaska’s pristine landscapes may be, our “peoplescapes” are just as special. Alaskans are known for being warm and friendly despite—or perhaps because of—our cold winter temperatures. Believe it or not, the number of people who visit Alaska every year is more than double our year-round residents. Over one million people visit during the summer alone, and winter vacations in Alaska are starting to catch up in popularity as brave tourists come to see the Iditarod or watch the northern lights dancing in the night sky. We never get tired of seeing people who genuinely enjoy and are awed by their visit to Alaska.
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