Alaska

Natural Beauty

  • Chena Hot Springs – a wonderful hot spring with a large outdoor pool. Go in the winter for northern lights!
  • Hutlinana Hot Springs – an undeveloped hot springs that you can drive to in the winter

Roads

  • Atigun Pass – the only road to cross the Brooks Range, it is mostly used by truckers going to Prudhoe Bay
  • Nabesna Road – drive deep into Wrangell St. Elias National Park to an abandoned mining town
  • Steese Highway – lots of placer mining took place as miners followed gold from the Klondike to Fairbanks
  • Top of the World Highway – follow a ridgetop in the tundra with views for miles

History

  • Kennicott Mine – the highest-grade copper mine ever discovered. A railroad was build from Cordova to the mine in the 1920s.
  • Wedding Spot – We got married at this spot in 2022!

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  • Deadhorse – the end of the Haul Road and the north end of the Pan-American Highway. There are no permanent residents but thousands of itinerant workers.
  • Manley Hot Springs – An abandoned hot springs resort.
  • Yukon-Tanana River Crossing – the road from Manley Hot Springs was pushed to the southern bank of the Yukon River so that residents of Tanana could more easily access the road system.