Alaska
Super-sized wilderness
If you thought everything about the USA was big, well, Alaska is just... bigger.
It's the country's largest state, home to both the country’s biggest national park, Wrangell-St Elias, and highest peak, Denali.
Everything here is on an epic scale and there's adventure everywhere you look. You can paddle across silent fjords with snowy peaks towering above you, watch huge grizzlies pluck glistening salmon from icy rivers, hear the howl of wolves from your cabin in the dark of night and gaze skywards at the shimmering fireworks of the Northern Lights.
There are few roads, so you'll need to hop aboard a light plane to enter the wilderness where musk oxen, grey wolves, bears and caribou roam wild and free. Alaska is a place to encounter nature in all its raw, ethereal beauty ‒ and perhaps to find yourself again as you do so.
Alaska's national parks
Alaska's most stunning national parks and how to visit them
There’s the great outdoors and then there’s the wilderness. And then, in a category all of its own, there’s Alaska. Just over two million tourists visit Alaska each year: a drop in the ocean for a space that is larger than the next three states combined...read more
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Prince William Sound, Chugach & Denali
Hiking, kayaking, backpacking & ice climbing
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Anchorage
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Turquoise Lake
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Chugach National Forest
Extending for roughly 495,000 acres north, south and east of Anchorage and connected to the Southcentral Alaska road network, Chugach State Park is one of the state’s more accessible adventure spots... -
Noatak National Preserve
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Kongakut River
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Kobuk Valley National Park
Located entirely above the Arctic Circle in the western Brooks Range, Kobuk Valley National Park is a broad valley encircled by the Baird and Waring mountain ranges, with the Kobuk River snaking through its middle for 61 miles... -
Aleutian Islands
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Katmai National Park
Broad river flats, looming mountains, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes; the stunning, desolate remains of the 20th century's largest volcanic eruption... -
Denali National Park
Denali National Park and Preserve is a sprawling, 6-million-acre land of snow-clad peaks, tundra-carpeted hills and rushing glacier-fed creeks... -
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
If you live in or near Anchorage and want a quick day of bear viewing, you head for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which is just a short hour's flight away... -
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
If you think of sprawling coastal plains and seemingly endless streams of caribou, you're probably thinking of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR to locals)... -
Gates of the Arctic National Park
Although it's one of the most visited parks in the Arctic, Gates of the Arctic is still populated by far more caribou and birds than human visitors... -
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park And Preserve
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Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords National Park
Prince William Sound (PWS) sits in a calm, well-sheltered inlet on the Gulf of Alaska... -
Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
The six-mile-wide caldera in the heart of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve showcases what's left when a mountain literally blows its top... -
Fairbanks
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Great Kobuk Sand Dunes
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Matanuska Glacier
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Bering Land Bridge National Monument
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Cape Krusenstern National Monument
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Kenai Fjords National Park
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Talkeetna Mountains
Nestled between the Alaska Range and the Chugach Mountains, Talkeetna offers rugged trails and remote areas dense with glaciers... -
Seward
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