Great Vacation in Alaska Home: Anchorage Alaska

Welcome to Beautiful Anchorage Alaska!

Anchorage, where High Culture and Wild Alaskan Lifestyle Collide!

Where else, but Anchorage Alaska, are you going to find a major city where moose, grizzly bear, and who knows all what else, reside in such close proximity to fine dining establishments and top-of-the-line hotels?

Anchorage Alaska is a great big beautiful 1700sq sq mile span of Artic splendor!

I still recall arriving in Anchorage for the first time!

After being on the Alaskan Highway for six days, we found it hard to believe that there was so much city (read: civilization) this far north!

Unless you drive here, you miss out on this very cool perspective! Afterall, it's along way to the "Top of The World!"

Anchorage: A Big, Wild, Life!

If you look at an Anchorage Map, you'll see that Anchorage Alaska is situated on a Penninsula with The striking Chugach Mountains set as the cities backdrop and the massive Cook Inlet, with the second highest tide surges, positioned at it's shores. The Cook Inlet is the northernmost reach of the Pacific Ocean.

Anchorage encompasses a 2,000 sq mile , which is about the size of the state of Delaware.

Mt. McKinley (Denali) is located approximately 130 miles to the north.

Anchorage is home to more than 300,000 people. The population in Alaska is overall younger than other states in The United States. Not that many have been born here, raised here and grown old here yet!

Whether you are planning an Anchorage Alaska vacation, moving to Alaska or already living here, our hope is that you'll find this page informative, fun and full of the information that you are seeking.

Anchorage Restaurants

Anchorage Alaska is a very culturally diverse city. Anchorage has a large Asian community and it is not rare to hear Russian being spoken here....just to name a few branches of our diversity here!

Because of this, you will find just about any kind of restaurant that you set out to find here.

Be sure to visit our Anchorage Restaurant page for recommendations.

What To Do and See in Anchorage

Wow! So much to see and do. I've lived near Anchorage for awhile now and I'm still trying to see it all. I hope that my comments and experience will help plan your trip and get organized so that you'll not miss a single Anchorage attractions. This city is simply unrivaled when it comes to outdoor fun! Many of the attractions are shown on this Anchorage map page.

It does a great job on the indoor activities as well. Afterall, we get a lot of winter up here. We need need things to do up here when it's cold outside too!

Just a few ideas include glacier viewing, wildlife viewing, fishing of all kinds, hiking in nearby State Parks, visit city parks, visiting the Anchorage Zoo, taking a "flight-seeing" trip...or even catch a touring Broadway play.

Where else can one scale a glacier and see a broadway play all in the same day? ... Now you are getting a glimpse of the collision of high culture and the wild Alaskan lifestyle that I was talking about earlier. It's what makes Anchorage Alaska so unique!

Yes, Anchorage is a gateway to the other parts of Alaska, but don't forget to allocate some of your vacation time to visit the attraction to be found in Alaska's largest city!

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