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North America : United States of America : Alaska : Southcentral Alaska

Southcentral Alaska

Southcentral Alaska is a region of Alaska, home to its largest population center around Anchorage, on the north Pacific Ocean.

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  • Kenai Fjords National Park - at Kenai Fjords, glaciers, earthquakes, and ocean storms are the architects.
  • Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve - the continent's largest assemblage of glaciers and greatest collection of peaks above 16,000 feet

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Visitors will most likely arrive at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage (ANC). From Anchorage, the highway goes in two directions, either south to the Kenai Peninsula or north to the MatSu Valley (Palmer and Wasilla), where the road splits into either the Parks Highway (Denali, Fairbanks) or the Glenn Highway (Glennallen, Canada). The Alaska Railroad (http://www.akrr.com/) runs passenger trains to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula in the summer and north to Fairbanks year round. There are plenty of rental car agencies in Anchorage, but it is important to book ahead in the high season. There is a bus service south to the Kenai (http://www.homerstageline.com/) year round. There is public transportation in Anchorage (People Mover: http://www.muni.org/transit1/index.cfm) and Fairbanks.

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  • Favorite Bay Lodge, [1]. Take a journey back in time to an environment-quite possibly the last frontier on earth. 

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This page was last edited at 13:52, on 7 March 2009 by Wikitravel user Huttite. Based on work by Sara Janes, M. Hogue, Ryan Holliday, Stacy Hall, Todd VerBeek and Mark Jaroski, Wikitravel user(s) AHeneen and Dhum Dhum and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.