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Greater Alaska Articles Featured on USATravelPal.com
USATravelPal.com, a comprehensive travel website in progress, provides comprehensive travel information on over 1500 exciting destinations throughout the United States, including 47 in Greater Alaska (outside the eight national parks). Exciting places to visit in Greater Alaska include the cities of Anchorage, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Nome, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, and Valdez, as well as the Alaska Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and Kodiak Island.
With a population of nearly 300,000, Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska. Anchorage offers much in the way of art and culture as well as sports and recreation. The Alaska Center for the Performing arts in downtown Anchorage hosts the International Ice Carving Competition every February, and the Sitka Summer Music Festival features the "Autumn Classics" chamber music festival every September. Fun museums in Anchorage include the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, the Imaginarium-A Science Museum, and the Wells Fargo Alaska Heritage Library & Museum.
Juneau, the capitol of Alaska, is another exciting destination. Here, visitors can enjoy a dog sled ride down the glaciers of the Juneau Ice Cap. Other fun things to see in and near Juneau include the Alaska State Museum, the Alaskan Hotel, Mendenhall Glacier, Mount Roberts, and the Red Dog Saloon.
Another fun place to go is Kodiak Island, the second largest island in the United States, located off the south coast of Alaska. This beautiful island features densely-forested green hills. The main attraction on the island is the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, which occupies two-thirds of the island and features Kodiak brown bears, red foxes, river otters, Sitka deer, mountain goats, and many other varieties of exotic animals and plants.
