Banff National Park is the oldest national park in Canada and the crown jewel of the country’s park system.
Jasper National Park is the largest park in the Canadian Rockies and is full of stunning mountain vistas, wildlife, glaciers, and more.
The opportunity to see wildlife is a major attraction for many visitors to the North Country. The MILEPOST® highway logs point out spots along the highways where travelers…
Located at Historic Milepost 918 on the Alaska Highway, the downtown business section of Whitehorse lies on the west bank of the Yukon River. Whitehorse has been the…
The trans-Alaska pipeline carries oil 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to the pipeline terminus at Port Valdez. Begun in March 1975 and completed in…
Southcentral Alaska’s Prince William Sound is an area famous for both scenery and wildlife. Dotted with islands, this 70-mile-wide gulf extends 30 miles north and west from the…
Denali, formerly named Mount McKinley—was officially renamed in 2015. This is North America’s highest mountain, elevation 20,310 feet. Denali is located within the Denali National Park & Preserve.…
Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage, has been labeled the playground of southcentral Alaska. It is a favorite destination for Alaskans and visitors from Outside, who are drawn…
Southeast Alaska, referred to by Alaskans simply as “Southeast,” is Alaska’s Panhandle. It stretches from Dixon Entrance at the U.S.–Canada border south of Ketchikan to Icy Bay, northwest…
Alaska-bound travelers interested in viewing glaciers are definitely headed in the right direction. Alaska has an incredible number of glaciers—estimated at more than 100,000—with most concentrated in the…
The heart of Alaska’s Interior, Fairbanks is known (among other things) for its Chena River cruises and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Museum of the North. Fairbanks…
Denali National Park and Preserve lies on the north flank of the Alaska Range, 250 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Originally established in 1917, as Mount McKinley…
Located at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers, Dawson City was created by the discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in 1896, and the resulting gold…
