Anchorage Travel Guide

 11 Reviews  Sure, the start line is where the excitement is, but you will get a better views and thinner crowds if you move a bit down the track! My experience was that it was easy to find free curbside parking on 5th avenue, and then just a short walk (five blocks, maybe) to the race area. 

 18 Reviews  McHugh Creek Recreation Area is a great place to send an hour, an afternoon or a day. It is located at mile 112 Seward Highway about 17 miles south of downtown Anchorage. Simply get on the Seward Highway headed south. The large pull off area has lots of places to park, it has multiple levels. They... 

 4 Reviews  Just at the southern edge of Anchorage, where the Seward Highway meets Turnagain Arm, is a large expanse of open wetlands. A wooden walkway has been constructed that allows you to walk out into the marsh a ways, parallel to the highway. I've always liked the open feeling at the marsh and have... 

 9 Reviews  There is a free trolley bus from downtown Anchorage to this place, although once you get your bearings around downtown Anchorage it hardly seems worth it as it’s only a short walk from the train station. Good excuse taking the trolley, saving your legs though and chatting to the trolley... 

 3 Reviews  The Downtown Saturday Market attracts vendors from all over the state. White tents line the way overlooking Ship Creek and parts of the Alaskan Railroad Depot. Eliminate the middle man department store and buy your souvenirs directly from the Artisans! The Saturday Market is open every Saturday... 

 2 Reviews  You may want to consider coming up here in the winter for the special events that take place at this time. Big events in Anchorage include the Iditarod (more written about this on my Alaska page), Fur Rendezvous festival, the International Film Festival, winter festivals and carnivals and so... 

 1 Review and 154 Opinions  Just spent a week here on business (Jan 2012) and was quite impressed. Another website (Trip... 

 14 Reviews  This was a great seafood restaurant, but it also does Steaks and Poultry. Don't be put off by the less than distinguished entrance, being inside a downtown office building because the views of the Cook Inlet are excellent. Also don’t be scared of having to wait in the bar area because the bar staff... 

 12 Reviews  I had food poisoning there and when I called and complained they were beyond rude. My boyfriend talked me into going again and then got terrible food poisening and they denied it and refused to do anything about it, even with the doctor's note. 

 7 Reviews  This is a restaurant/brewery combination restaurant. We went for the brewery part of it. It's really a nice place overlooking the Port of Anchorage with mulitple levels and in the summer, outside seating at the top. It's open all year and in the afternoon, it's quite empty. The dining area doesn't... 

 11 Reviews  Hump's is a great local ale house that keeps a wide variety of micro brews from here in Alaska. Their food is wonderful, the health nut halibut is my favorite and the bear battered halibut is my #2! The salmon spread is good as well. Good atmosphere, relaxed, nice people and really great food and... 

 5 Reviews  Right across the street from the 5th Street mall in downtown Anchorage. Good drinks, great food and service and the prices are reasonable. Its always nice to eat there at least once each time I visit Anchorage. Its a good place to have lunch too or just to stop on the way back to the car or hotel... 

 5 Reviews  Humpy's has become a very popular spot the past five years or so. Very large on the inside, they have a great menu and a very wide selection of beverages. Live music most nights with a solo local artist week nights and larger groups like the Hawaiian Regae band H2 on weekends. A wide spectrum of... 

 10 Reviews  See Anchorage & surroundings from the aeroplane. When you are landing at the Anchorage airport during daytime, do look out the aeroplane window and enjoy the really fantastic view of nature at it's best ! You can see the snow capped Chugach mountains, the vast plains, the waters of the Knik and... 

 8 Reviews  If you talk to people from here, they seem so blasé about moose. Not me. I haven’t lived here a long time, but there’s no way I’ll ever get tired of them. They are so large and fun to watch that spotting one (which is not really spotting since they walk through parking lots and your yard or stand in... 

 5 Reviews  A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other and another customer asked, "What is a seven-hundred-ten?" She replied, "You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need...