Anchorage Alaska Day Tours
Alaska Native Heritage Center
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is an
educational
and cultural institution.
The center provides programs in both academic
and informal settings, including workshops, demonstrations, and guided
tours of indoor exhibits and outdoor village sites.
Visitors to Alaska are introduced to Native
traditions
and customs of both the past and present. The Welcome House is a
celebration of contemporary Alaska Native cultures while the outdoor
facilities and sites of the Alaska Native Heritage Center allow the
exploration of ancient tradition and the presentation of stories from
the past.
The Alaska Native Heritage Center provides a unique opportunity to
experience the many diverse Alaska Native cultures at one location.
Cost: $23.50 per person
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Experience the
Anchorage
Museum of History and Art and its extraordinary permanent collection
depicting 10,000 years of Alaska history - Native subsistence
lifestyles, European exploration, Russian America, and contemporary
times. View art of the North.
A world-class museum, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art is located
in the heart of Anchorage and features a restaurant and gift shop on
site.
Open daily, May to September.
Cost: $7.00 per person
Anchorage Historic Walking Tour
Downtown Anchorage
is
nearly flat, making for a delightful stroll. Throughout the summer,
hanging floral baskets line the streets.
Start at the Log Cabin Visitor Information Center, where friendly
volunteers answer questions, and provide maps for your walking tour.
Racks of brochures line the walls to inform you about all facets of
Alaskan Adventure.
The marble statue in front of Old City Hall
next
door honors William Seward. Along 4th Avenue are some of Anchorage's
original buildings including the 4th Avenue Theater built in 1947. Some
of the buildings are dated from 1920, when Anchorage was incorporated.
Cater corner from
the
Old City Hall is the Alaska Public Lands information Center, one of four
in the state that provide information on all of Alaska's public lands.
Take F Street north downhill to 2nd Avenue, the site of original
town-site homes built by the Alaska Engineering Commission, which also
built the Alaska Railroad in the early 1900s. Walk east along 2nd Avenue
past the Eisenhower Memorial to a set of stairs leading down to the
Alaska Railroad depot. Salmon run up Ship Creek, north of the depot, all
summer.
The Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, is a
recreational
trail that begins west of 2nd Avenue and curls along Cook Inlet. Follow
2nd Avenue to K Street, go south a block to 3rd Avenue, and follow 3rd
Avenue westward to Resolution Park, with its statue of Captain Cook.
From here you can admire the grand vistas over Cook Inlet to Mt.
McKinley and other peaks in the Alaska Range. The Oscar Anderson House
Museum, off the coastal trail at the north end of Elderberry Park, was
Anchorage's first permanent frame house, built in 1915 by city butcher
Oscar Anderson.
If young travelers
are
getting restless, head back up the 5th Avenue hill to the Imaginarium,
an experiential science museum with a great gift shop. Walk down 5th
Avenue, past the Egan Convention Center, whose lobby has several modern
Native Alaskan sculptures. Across the street is a park (Town Square)
that's packed with flowers in the summer, and just southwest of it is
the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
Continue down 6th Ave past the Kimball
building
one of Anchorage’s first commercial buildings built in 1915 and the
Alaska State Troopers Museum. A Street and 7th Avenue is the location
for the entrance to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, which
occupies the whole block between 6th and 7th avenues. The red metal
sculpture out front is a favorite hide-and-seek site for children. The
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 535 East 9th Ave and
celebrates many people’s lives that built the Last Frontier.
Cost: Inquire for more information
More Alaska day tours:
Denali National Park Day Tour
Fairbanks Day Tours
Seward Day Tours