A visit to Skagway, a historic town on the Alaska Panhandle and home to Westmark Inn Skagway, is about as close as you can get to a trip back to the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. Skagway was the place where thousands of hopeful prospectors poured off steamships arriving from Seattle in hopes of…
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Denali Denali is the highest peak in North America, 20,320 feet above sea level. The mountain is surrounded by beautiful Denali National Park, and in this picture from the north you see Wonder Lake in the foreground. Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis The natural phenomenon in the skies above the arctic region is called the…
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Anchorage Population: 272,687 Anchorage is by far the biggest city in Alaska in terms of population, with more than eight times as many people as the next biggest town, Fairbanks. Explore the Westmark Anchorage Hotel & Conference Center. Fairbanks Population: 31,324 Fairbanks, located in central Alaska, is just 198 miles south of the Arctic Circle…
Continue ReadingPerhaps no other book is as synonymous with Alaska and the Yukon as Jack London’s seminal work The Call of the Wild. This timeless story about the journey of Buck, an Alaskan sled dog during the time of the Klondike gold rush, still attracts visitors to the area despite being written over 100 years ago.…
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