Alaska-Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

Pioneer character mingles with modern amenities in Anchorage, which is a busy town year round. It lacks no excitement with Fur Rendezvous and the Iditarod's exhibition start in wintertime. But it's in summer that the city really sings—the buzz of float planes, the crackle of the Northern Lights, and ever, always, the call of the not-so-distant wild.