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Alaska Naturally Aurora Show The Alaska Naturally Aurora Show, or AurorA, is one of the most unique and comfortable ways to see ‘Alaska’s Great Northern Lights’, even in the middle of the day! This show displays one of the most unique and breathtaking sights of the North, the iconic Northern Lights. This local show is…

Anchorage Museum If you truly want to get to know the city you are staying in, head to the Anchorage Museum, the modern glass-fronted building in the heart of the city that holds some of the most educational information on Alaska and the Arctic in general.  This large museum contains art, history, ethnography, ecology, and…

Kincaid Park Kincaid Park is a very large, very fun, outdoor green space that will allow your group to exercise, visit with the locals, take in local wildlife, and experience one of the most beloved regional parks all at once! Kincaid is a 1,516-acre park located in between Turnagain Arm and the Anchorage International Airport, the…

Flattop Mountain Welcome to Flattop Mountain, Alaska’s most visited and most climbed peak! This gorgeous natural hotspot is accessible by the highly traversed 1.5 miles, 1,350 vertical foot trail, a path that eventually leads you to panoramic views atop the football field-sized summit. Located just east of urban Anchorage, this mountain takes about 1 hour…

Chugach State Park Welcome to the fourth largest state park in the United States, the 495,000-acre park in south-central Alaska known as the Chugach State Park. This massively gorgeous wilderness area is considered to be a huge local park, containing rugged landscape, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, trails, and camping grounds. The 700 square miles of wilderness…

Tony Knowles Coastal Trail Start your Alaskan journey by taking a stroll down one of the most beautiful trails in the whole nation, the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. This trail is the most popular in Anchorage by far and runs 11 miles from downtown Anchorage to the chalet at Kincaid Park. The trail was named…

Free Time in Girdwood Girdwood is a small Alaskan mountain town about 36 miles south of Anchorage. Both Girdwood and Anchorage are both extremely beautiful and rugged cities in Alaska. Unlike Anchorage, however, Girdwood strives to provide a small town vibe and takes pride in allowing guests to escape all the city hustle and bustle…

Ceremonial Start of Iditarod Race Get ready for this once in a lifetime opportunity to view the beginning of “The Last Greatest Race on Earth”, the Alaska Iditarod. This race pits man and animal versus nature as they travel down 1000 miles of the roughest and most beautiful terrain, encountering harsh mountain ranges, frozen rivers,…

Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Festival Welcome to the nation’s premier winter festival, the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Festival, often times referred to as the Fur Rondy or just Rondy. This nationally and internationally renown festival began in 1935 as a sports tournament, including skiing, hockey, basketball, boxings, and children’s sled dog racing. It originally lasted 3 days…

On Location Tours NY Have you ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of some of your favorite movie or tv stars? What about seeing the very spots where your latest Netflix binge-series was filmed, or where iconic movie shots have been created? Well with On Location Tours, that’s exactly what you will get to…

Skeletons: Animals Unveiled There’s a new attraction sweeping museum-goers across Florida by storm, the new Orlando feature known by the name of Skeletons: Animals Revealed. This informative attraction is owned by Skulls Unlimited, a company which started out in Oklahoma and brought its special form of osteopathic interactive museums to Orlando last year. Located right…