Anchorage Vacations

Anchorage Vacations

Why not have a vacation in the great Alaskan city of Anchorage. It can be a super place for a vacation. You might want to enjoy the great scenery and cold weather of the state.

There is some great wilderness to explore in the state.

Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is located in the homeland of the Dena'ina Athabaskans, and is a consolidated city borough in the USA state of Alaska.

Anchorage is located in South central Alaska. It lies slightly farther north than Oslo, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. It is northeast of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and Cook Inlet, due north of the Kenai Peninsula, northwest of Prince William Sound and Alaska Panhandle, and nearly due south of Mount McKinley / Denali.

The city is on a strip of coastal lowland and extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains. To the south is Turnagain Arm, a fjord that has some of the world's highest tides. Knik Arm, another tidal inlet, lies to the west and north. The Chugach Mountains on the east form a boundary to development, but not to the city limits, which encompass part of the wild alpine territory of Chugach State Park.

The city's seacoast consists mostly of treacherous mudflats. Newcomers and tourists are warned not to walk in this area because of extreme tidal changes and sticky mud.

To the north is Matanuska - Susitna Borough ( Mat-Su Valley, or just the valley), which is included with the MOA as a metropolitan area by the US Census Bureau. Although the Mat-Su is a "bedroom community" for Anchorage, the towns, exurbs, farms,and homesteads there have varied local cultures quite distinct from that of Anchorage proper. Between metropolitan Anchorage and the valley the communities of Eagle River and Chugiak, although part of the MOA, also have distinct identities.

Anchorage has a subarctic climate (the Köppen climate classification is Dfc) due to its short, cool summers.

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is the major airport in the United States state of Alaska located 4 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage.

Bears are regularly sighted within the city. Moose are a common sight.

Parks and gardens

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers
The Alaska Botanical Garden contains over 900 species of hardy perennials and 150 native plant species
Alaska Zoo
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Delaney Park Strip
Kincaid Park
Point Woronzof Park

South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and contains most of the state's population. Anchorage and many growing towns, such as Palmer, and Wasilla, lie within this area. Petroleum industrial plants, transportation, tourism, and two military bases form the core of the economy here. South Central Alaska consists of the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska from the shorelines and uplands of the Gulf of Alaska. Most of the population of the state lives in this region, concentrated in and around the city of Anchorage. The area includes the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, the Kenai Peninsula, Cook Inlet, and Prince William Sound. Fisheries and petroleum production are important economic activities. The major city is Anchorage. Other towns include Kenai, Valdez, Homer, Seward.

Alaska is one of two U.S. States not bordered by another state; Hawaii the other. Alaska has more sea front than all of the other US states combined. It is the only non contiguous state in North America; about 500 miles of Canadian territory separate Alaska from Washington State. Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States that is part of the continental U.S. but is not part of the contiguous USA Alaska is also the only state whose capital city is accessible only via ship or air. No roads connect Juneau to the rest of the state.

The state is bordered by Yukon and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north.

You might want to rent, sell, hire, buy, loan, or timeshare some, vacation accomodation in the great city.

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