Album: Alaska Native Heritage Center

The Heritage Center is a centerpiece of native life in Anchorage. Learn about Eskimos, Indians, and Aleuts, watch traditional dance, listen to storytelling, meet carvers, and tour authentic dwellings which kept natives warm through the seasons. Visit the

Album: Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center Photos (formerly Big Game Alaska)

At the 140-acre Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, jaws drop in awe-even those of longtime Alaskans who've studied grizzlies and other animals up close. AWCC's mission is to provide refuge for orphaned, injured, and ill animals-those that can't survive

Album: Seavey's WildRide Sled Dog Show

Album: Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum

Learn about Alaska's aviation history and the daring bush pilots who opened up the Last Frontier. See rare aircraft dating back to WWI, historic photographs, artifacts, maps, newspaper accounts, aviators' clothing, and films.

Album: Anchorage Museum

Album: Alaska Wild Berry Park and Theater

Alaskan entertainment, food, animals, attractions, and shopping: Alaska Wild Berry Park and Theater, just 10 minutes from downtown Anchorage.

Album: Lake Hood Floatplane Base Photos

Watch floatplanes—as many as 800 per day—splash down and lift off at the world’s busiest floatplane base lake. Stroll the grassy shores lined with planes, from rusting relics to brightly painted beauties to vintage models which float on their bellie

Album: Earthquake Park

This park is set in the woods where an entire neighborhood slid into the ocean during last century's most powerful earthquake. Walk trails and read signs which explain the destruction and the stupendous natural forces that caused it. You can see actual fo

Album: The Alaska Zoo

Enjoy the wooded hillside setting while getting close-up views of the many animals of the north. Be sure to see polar bear Ahpun and brown bear Oreo.

Album: Elmendorf Salmon Viewing Platform

For guaranteed wildlife viewing close to downtown, head to the visitor viewing area at Elmendorf State Hatchery. Having spawned in the hatchery, the ocean - ready salmon and trout are released for migration. They’ll return as adults ready to spawn, and

Album: Alaska Botanical Gardens

Stroll through 110 acres in the foothills of east Anchorage where Campbell Creek winds through a birch and spruce forest. Walk the Wildflower Trail, relax in the Herb Garden, delight in the perennial gardens, and explore the 1.1 mile Lowenfels Family Natu

Album: Within the Wild

Album: Alaska Railroad Photos