The last north-western frontier of the North American Continent, Alaska is the largest state of the USA and in the same time the least densely populated. As vacation destination, Alaska has a large offer for nature lovers, extreme sports and adventure passionate.
The travelers can enjoy the wonderful Alaska’s landscape and taste the adventure choosing from the followings:
Visiting one or more of the natural parks:
• Denali National Park, an wildlife area and country of the tallest mountain in North America.
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, the largest national park featured by mountains, mines and glaciers.
• Kenai Fjords National Park – a perfect offer for for wildlife-viewing, kayaking or glacier viewing.
• Alaska’s state Park – the 119 state parks and recreation areas perfect for camping, fishing or a picnic, spread across Southeast, Southcentral, Interior and Western Alaska.
• Alaska’s National Forest, the Chugach and the Tongass, are areas of recreation, fishing and hunting, mountain biking and snowmobile riding.
• National historical parks.
• Sitka National Historical Park empire of Russian merchants and religious leaders.
• Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park dedicated to gold prospectors of the stampede that began in 1898.
Admiring glaciers that could be done in one of this ways:
• by land, viewing them from distance or even walk up to or on some of them,
• by sea, during cruises
• by air, form small planes and helicopters
» Fishing in streams, lakes and oceans can offer to this sport lovers a lot of satisfactions as the fish offer is very rich: wild Pacific salmon, halibut, rainbow trout and delicate arctic grayling.
» Ecotours in Alaska – are an adventure offers for those that want to test them selves limits while they paddling around an island, slip into a kayak, watching sea otters playing, rafting down a white water creek
» Dog-sled rides – associated with Alaska name, it is considered the state’s official sport and one of the Alaska’s winter joys.
» Hiking in Alaska cover a large offer for mountains lovers from technical feats (up Denali) to the casual (smaller Denali and Chugach state parks).
» Aurora Borealis – the northern lights of Alaska – this seams to be the only thing that could get Alaskans to go outside in January. Usually the aurora borealis appears to the northern side of the viewer, but occasionally it seems to be directly overhead.
The Alaska’s most populous city is Anchorage. As an alternative to nature exploration and wild life watching, Anchorage has a cultural offer of music festivals and other cultural events.
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