The Mount Alyeska aerial tram

Reducing Anchorage to igloos and Eskimos would be a mistake. With its slogan “Live Big Wild”, Anchorage offers a rich and unique combination of wilderness and modern urban life. It offers plenty of city activities — restaurants, shops, museums — alongside a life firmly turned toward nature.  10,946 hectares of municipal parks and 400 km² of green spaces connect the city ...

Established in 1980 to protect some of Alaska's most remarkable and impenetrable wilderness, Kenai Fjords National Park spans more than 2,500 km², at the foot of Seward. Snow and ice cover 60% of its area. From the vast Harding Icefield bordering the park, countless glaciers flow down, carving valleys that fill with seawater to form fjords and icebergs the size of small ...

Denali National Park sits at the center of Alaska, the US state located at the continent's northwestern tip, bordering Canada.As large as 4 French départements and designated a “Biosphere Reserve” since 1976, the park offers a breathtaking diversity of landscapes: tundra, taiga, deep valleys, glaciers and peaks rising above 6,000 metres form one of the richest ecosystems in the world. ...