(NPS Photo/Emily Mesner) Though it has so far received little attention, a troubling new commercial activity is being proposed within one of the gems of our Alaska State Parks system. Developers ...

Alaska State Troopers investigate mailbox damage in North Pole, two new cabins open in Kodiak, Fairbanks plans an indoor ...

Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the ... of the northern lights. To explore Alaska’s wildest spaces—such as, the eight national parks and North America’s highest peak ...

But Alaska has been governed by special rules ever since 1980, when an act of Congress doubled the size of the National Park System while adding 104 million acres of new parks, preserves, and wildlife ...

Bear in mind, though, that services in national parks will be limited ... Nordic ski trails crisscrossing the state. One of the biggest draws of a trip to Alaska is the chance to see the wildlife.