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Things to do
- Hiking, camping, mountain biking -- from a casual day hike to a bad-ass multi-day wilderness backpacking trek
- Mountains and glaciers, including unforgiving Mt. Denali -- it has larger base-to-summit vertical rise than Mt. Everest
- Canoeing, kayaking, rafting -- from slow flowing rivers and lakes to Class V whitewater
- Wildlife watching: bear, bold eagles, and more
- Salmon fishing, hunting
- Take a coastal cruise -- see glaciers and fjords
- Backcountry and heli-skiing in the spring -- Alaska has the steepest skiable slopes on Earth
- Freshest air
- Mountains and glaciers, including unforgiving Mt. Denali -- it has larger base-to-summit vertical rise than Mt. Everest
- Canoeing, kayaking, rafting -- from slow flowing rivers and lakes to Class V whitewater
- Wildlife watching: bear, bold eagles, and more
- Salmon fishing, hunting
- Take a coastal cruise -- see glaciers and fjords
- Backcountry and heli-skiing in the spring -- Alaska has the steepest skiable slopes on Earth
- Freshest air
Attractions and sights
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At 20,000 ft / 6,200m, the highest peak in N. America, and highest base to peak rise on Earth. The centerpiece of Denali National Park
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Kenai Fjords National Park is a United States National Park established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The park covers an area of 669,984 acres on the Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska, near the town of Seward.
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Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Misty Fiords National Monument is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest.
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Tracy Arm is a fjord near Juneau, AK, with a spectacular glacier meeting the ocean water
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Steep and rugged (though relatively low) coastal mountain range. Glaciers, fjords, lakes. The steepest extreme skiing slopes on Earth -- most ski porn is filmed there. Home to Chugach State Park and National Forest.
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The Alaska SeaLife Center, Alaska’s premier public aquarium and Alaska's only permanent marine mammal rehabilitation facility, is located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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A zoo in Anchorage, AK. Polar, grizzly and black bear, wolves, eagles, snow owls, and more
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When to go
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How to get there
By plane. The main int'l airport is Anchorage. There are many regional airports around of various sizes. Seaplanes are another option. Cruise ships is another one.