Anchorage: Native Culture, Wilderness City and the World Cargo Hub
Experience 11 Alaska Native cultural groups at the Heritage Center, hike Flattop Mountain above the city for Denali views, explore 14,000 years of Alaska history at the Chipperfield-designed museum, cheer Iditarod mushers on Fourth Avenue, watch critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales from the coastal trail, and learn why this subarctic city handles more cargo tonnage than most of the world airports.
Anchorage: Fjord Glaciers, Urban Moose and the Earthquake That Changed Building Codes
Cruise to calving tidewater glaciers in Kenai Fjords, visit Eklutna spirit house burial ground blending Athabascan and Orthodox traditions, stand in the Turnagain Heights neighborhood still showing 1964 earthquake subsidence, watch a moose eat your neighbor garden, ski Alyeska 3,939-foot vertical, and see Cook Inlet and Denali from Resolution Park.
Anchorage: Aurora Nights, Bore Tides and King Salmon Downtown
Watch northern lights on 100 nights per year above Cook Inlet, time your visit to see the Turnagain Arm bore tide wave advancing at highway speed, ride the Alaska Railroad flag-stop train to roadless cabins and Denali views, ski and dine at the Seven Glaciers restaurant in Girdwood, fish for 50-pound king salmon within sight of downtown skyscrapers, and hear the Alaska symphony in its mosaic-tiled concert hall.