2. If you are you looking for a relaxing scenic float with view of glaciers and icebergs, we recommend the Glacier Discovery Tour. You will paddle with our guides in a modern design of Haida Native Alaskan dugout canoes, getting up close and personal with the icebergs after lunch on the glacier. And also catch a salmon.

3. Alaska Land Pionner is a nice place to go. To the left of the meeting hall/lobby is the Museum filled with artifacts of early Fairbanks. To the right is the Big Stampede Theater where the excitement of the Gold Rush has been preserved on canvas paintings.

4. Coastal erosion has more than doubled in Alaska, up to 45 feet per year, in a 5-year period between 2002 and 2007 along a 40-mile stretch of the Beaufort Sea. A U.S. Geological Survey-led study reveals that average annual erosion rates along this part of the Beaufort Sea climbed from historical levels of about 20 feet per year between the mid-1950s and late-1970s, to 28 feet per year between the late-1970s and early 2000s, to a rate of 45 feet per year between 2002 and 2007.

5. The Alaska Native Heritage Center, a renowned cultural center and museum in Anchorage, is an exciting place where all people can come to expand their understanding of Alaska's Indigenous people. Here we share, preserve, and perpetuate the rich heritage of Alaska's eleven cultural groups locally, regionally and statewide.

6. Nugget Mall is Southeast Alaska's largest retail shopping center. Opened in November of 1974 as the Nugget Department Store it premiered as the first shop to open in the Nugget Mall carrying men's, women's and children's clothing, plus bedding, sheets and giftware.

7. Glacier Brewhouse has been a huge success from the day they opened 10 years ago. A very large restaurant, it is always packed, especially on weekends. A large selection to choose from the menu from burgers to steaks to fine dining.

8. Alaska’s Hotel Captain Cook is Anchorage’s only true luxury hotel. The Hotel Captain Cook is Alaska’s only member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, an organization of 620 of the finest independently owned and managed luxury hotels and resorts across the globe. All guestroom and suite accommodations command majestic and panoramic views of the Cook Inlet or Chugach Mountains.

9. You should visit because you could go water rafting with your family, to spend a great time. Also enjoy amazing food from Alaska.