AN ALASKA ROAD TRIP IS A GRAND ADVENTURE! Alaska's Grand Circle is a loop route that begins in Tok and utilizes all four segments (1082 miles) of Alaska’s Interstate Highway system: Tok to Fairbanks on AK-2 (Interstate A-2); Fairbanks to Gateway (near Anchorage) on...
AN ALASKA ROAD TRIP IS A GRAND ADVENTURE! Alaska's Grand Circle is a loop route that begins in Tok and utilizes all four segments (1082 miles) of Alaska’s Interstate Highway system: Tok to Fairbanks on AK-2 (Interstate A-2); Fairbanks to Gateway (near Anchorage) on...
AN ALASKA ROAD TRIP IS A GRAND ADVENTURE! Alaska's Grand Circle is a loop route that begins in Tok and utilizes all four segments (1082 miles) of Alaska’s Interstate Highway system: Tok to Fairbanks on AK-2 (Interstate A-2); Fairbanks to Gateway (near Anchorage) on...
AN ALASKA ROAD TRIP IS A GRAND ADVENTURE! Alaska's Grand Circle is a loop route that begins in Tok and utilizes all four segments (1082 miles) of Alaska’s Interstate Highway system: Tok to Fairbanks on AK-2 (Interstate A-2); Fairbanks to Gateway (near Anchorage) on...
Once you’ve driven the Alaska Highway, and arrived in Fairbanks (or wherever), what’s next? You’re not going to turn around and go home without seeing the sights, but Alaska is breathtakingly huge, so how do you prioritize your possibilities?...
The main attraction at Kenai Fjords National Park is the incredible scenery. Rivers of ice and untamed geography flow together here, and everything that’s amazing about the wild coast of Alaska is on full display. Tidewater glaciers spawn icebergs right before...
Kenai Fjords was established as a National Park when Congress implemented the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980. The protected area covers a bit more than 1,000 square miles of the wild southeastern coastline of the Kenai Peninsula, and...
When I drove my Jeep to Alaska on the Alaska Highway, my first overnight stop after crossing the border from Canada was in Fairbanks, Alaska’s Second City. It was the farthest north I’d ever been; I’m not really sure what I expected, but what I found...
PRETTY ROCKS LANDSLIDE Pretty Rocks Landslide that cut off much of the Denali Park Road in August of 2021. Photo Courtesy of the National Park Service. CLICK HERE for Current Conditions and Closures at Denali IN AUGUST, 2021: A serious landslide in the area of...
With just 32,000 residents, Fairbanks is a mid-sized town by most standards, but in sparsely inhabited Alaska, it’s the largest community in the interior of the state, its population second only to that of the much larger city of Anchorage. It was founded in 1901 as a...
Photographer’s Assignment: Mount Rainier
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