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The most successful of all secretaries of the interior, Stewart Udall was born in 1920 in...

Aldo Leopold, wilderness advocate and author of the most influential book on conservation, was...

America’s greatest landscape photographer, Ansel Adams was born in 1902 and grew up...

Southwest Alaska is a river-rich region is home to one of Alaska’s highest concentrations of brown bears...

Northwest Alaska is less celebrated than the neighboring regions to the east—the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and Gates of the Arctic...

Alaska above the Arctic Circle is vast and unforgiving, with human existence seemingly irrelevant. The region is home to America’s largest swaths of protected land, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...

Alaska’s eastern interior is dominated by Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, the largest national park in the United States. For comparison, Wrangell-St. Elias is larger than the country of Switzerland and six times...

Juneau is located on the Inside Passage in southeastern Alaska, surrounded by tall mountains on the narrow Gastineau Channel. The former gold settlement is the only state capital in the United States without road access...

Anchorage is Alaska’s biggest city (Juneau is the capitol) and the gateway for adventure throughout the state. The city isn’t big by “outside” standards (“outside” referring to the lower 48 states)...

Alaska’s vastness can be intimidating, but the Kenai offers some of the best access to the outdoors in the state. Below are some of the top hiking trails on the Kenai Peninsula, from...

The Kenai Peninsula offers Alaska’s widest variety of activities in one of its most accessible regions. People come from all over the world to whale watch in Seward, see glaciers calve in Kenai Fjords National Park...