"Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Alaska, including Anchorage, Denali National Park, Mendenhall Glacier, and cruises along the Inside Passage. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth."--page [4] of cover. Provides information on accommodations, restaurants, attractions, outdoor activities, national parks, and shopping in Alaska.

Learn about this spectacular state and its animals.

Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries.

"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...

"In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl's skiff, and into her life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak. When Anne Girl and her mother, Marulia, find their skiff flattened by John's boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup'ik women living in a village that has been divided between...

Introduces the history, geography, industry, and people of the state known as the Last Frontier.

While training a new pack of sled dogs Jessie Arnold must get to the bottom of the arson outbreak that destroys a local tavern and then Jessie's cabin leaving one person dead, discovering along the way if her old friend Annie Holman is just a victim or a killer.

A photo essay describing a young native Alaskan boy fishing for salmon on Kodiak Island as his ancestors have done for generations.

From its base to its tallest peak, Denali measures 20,310 feet (6,190 meters) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in North America. Learn more in Denali, one of the titles in the Seven Summits series.