The Homer Spit—a skinny 4.5-mile finger of land pointing into the bay—is Alaska’s version of a peninsula, except instead of tourist traps, you get fresh-caught seafood that will ruin restaurant fish ...

The Alaska Railroad offers scenic, seasonal train rides across nearly 500 miles of Alaskan wilderness. Riding the Alaska Railroad is one of the best ways to explore Alaska’s remote beauty while ...

One of Southcentral Alaska's most promising mining prospects sits on Native corporation land, surrounded by Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, about 120 miles southwest of Anchorage and smack dab ...

New research found that sediments emptied into the waters of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, by Aialik Glacier were more dense in bioavailable micronutrients than sediments reaching the fjords ...

Third in a three-story series on mining in Alaska published in a partnership between Inside Climate News and Northern Journal. Read parts one and two. COOK INLET — High in a mountain valley on the far ...

Kenai Fjords National Park lies just outside the harbor town of Seward in south central Alaska. Here, mountains, glaciers, icefields, and the North Pacific all converge along one rugged coastline. The ...

Stay in a Salted Roots A-frame cabin overlooking Resurrection Bay, the fjord that stretches from Seward to the Gulf of Alaska. See Kenai Fjords National Park by boat; Major Marine Tours offers ...

Tucked away on the southern tip of the Chilkat Peninsula lies a natural masterpiece that somehow remains Alaska’s best-kept secret. Chilkat State Park offers the kind of raw, untamed beauty that makes ...

As TPG's cruise team lead, Gene Sloan oversees the site's cruise content and also writes many of TPG's main cruise guides. He has spent nearly 30 years writing about cruise ships and cruising, and he ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it. The slide created a gargantuan splash – a ...