The quality of salmon fishing in Alaska isn't so much a function of place as of time.Bristol Bay: This is the world's richest salmon fishery; lodges on the remote rivers of the region are an angler's paradise.Copper River Delta, Cordova: The Copper itself is silty with glacial…
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Alaska Bound
This Michigan-based agency specializes in Alaska with a staff of former Alaskans. It started as a cruise planner, working primarily with Holland America, but now plans many independent trips, too, charging a per-person fee that depends on the length of the trip ($100 per person would… - Travel Provider
Alaska Discovery
A local eco-tourism pioneer, Alaska Discovery was bought out by the famous Mountain Travel Sobek expedition company but still keeps local staff in Juneau and offers some of the best guided sea-kayaking trips in Southeast Alaska (sales staff is now in California). Glacier Bay and… - Travel Provider
Alaska Tour and Travel
Started in 1995 and steadily growing, this agency now claims to be the largest custom vacation company in Alaska. The same folks operate the Park Connection shuttle between Denali and Kenai Fjords national parks, and that central part of the state is what they know best and cover… - Travel Provider
Alaska Wildland Adventures
This company specializes in outdoor vacations for those who want to be comfortable in the evening and aren't seeking strenuous physical challenges. The company concentrates on the Kenai Peninsula, where it operates three wilderness lodges, but also goes to Denali National Park. Most… - Travel Provider
Alaska.org
This is a deep and well-built website that allows users to shop and customize tour packages or design their own vacations. The company produces an extraordinary amount of video and other material about destinations, including blog answers to user questions, so you can get a good idea… - Travel Provider
Alaskan Dream Cruises
Last year brought the debut of this small ship line, founded by the owner of Sitka-based Allen Marine Tours, owned by an Alaskan family with a long history in the boating business (including day tours and boatbuilding) in the state. The company is operating two small vessels on… - Travel Provider
American Safari Cruises
American Safari Cruises promises an intimate, all-inclusive cruise to some of the more out-of-the-way stretches of the Inside Passage -- and it succeeds admirably. The price is considerable -- but so is the pampering. The company's three small vessels carry between 12 and 36 guests,… - Travel Provider
AskMatt Alaskan Adventures & Tours
Matthew Lowe is an energetic entrepreneur who has turned his encyclopedic knowledge of Southcentral Alaska travel into his own business. His strength is in activities, fishing charters, remote lodges, and winter trips, but he happily books travelers into budget B&Bs as well as… - Travel Provider
Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival is the ultimate fun-in-the-sun warm-weather line, and even in Alaska, the Caribbean-focused operator retains its "Fun Ship" philosophy. Sure, you'll be cruising past glaciers and on the lookout for whales, but you'll be doing it with people who like to take in the natural… - Travel Provider
Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises offers a great combination: a classy, tasteful, and luxurious cruise experience at a moderate price -- it's definitely the best in the midpriced category. The line's ships are real works of art; the cuisine is above the norm; the service first-class, friendly, and… - Travel Provider
Disney Cruise Line
When it comes to entertaining every member of a family -- from the littlest children to parents and grandparents -- no other cruise line has it down quite like Disney. The 12-year-old operator has famously focused on catering as much to adults as kids, with a number of adults-only… - Travel Provider
Holland America Line
Holland America Line (HAL) can be summed up in one word: tradition. The company was formed way back in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company, and its ships today strive to present an aura of history and dignity, like a European hotel where they never let rock stars… - Travel Provider
Holland America Line Tours
This giant company offers tours to more places than any other, including some excursions -- on the Yukon River between Dawson City and Eagle, for example -- that are entirely unique. The catalog covers just about anything in the state that could possibly be done with a group. Prices… - Travel Provider
InnerSea Discoveries
Looking for an off-the-beaten-path adventure in Alaska? That's what it's all about at InnerSea Discoveries, which debuted in 2011 and is back for a second year. The two-ship company focuses on getting adventure-minded vacationers into the most beautiful and wildlife-filled corners of… - Travel Provider
Lindblad Expeditions
Lindblad Expeditions specializes in environmentally sensitive, soft-adventure vacations that are explorative and informal in nature -- what the company calls "respectful tourism." Its programs -- operated since 2004 in partnership with the National Geographic Society -- are designed… - Travel Provider
Norwegian Cruise Line
Very contemporary Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) offers an informal and upbeat onboard atmosphere on two large ships, the Norwegian Pearl and the Norwegian Jewel, both sailing from Seattle. The line excels at activities, and its recreational and fitness programs are among the best in… - Travel Provider
Nova
These guys started commercial rafting on Alaska's rivers in 1975, but as the industry developed, they expanded only slowly, keeping their base in a tiny village on the Matanuska River, northeast of Anchorage, and primarily employing Alaskan guides. We like the fact that they don't… - Travel Provider
Princess Cruises
Aboard Princess, you get a lot of bang for your buck, attractively packaged and well executed. Although its ships serve every corner of the globe, nowhere is the Princess presence more visible than in Alaska, where it will have seven ships in 2012 -- the same as sister line Holland… - Travel Provider
Princess Cruises and Tours
Princess built Alaska's best chain of hotels, reflecting a superior attention to quality. Two hotels are near Denali National Park, and one each is in Fairbanks, in Cooper Landing (on the Kenai Peninsula), and in Copper Center, near Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. The selection of… - Travel Provider
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent's guests travel in style and extreme comfort. Its brand of luxury is casually elegant and subtle, its cuisine among the best in the industry. That goes for the Seven Seas Navigator, which is sailing in Alaska this year for a second season. The line assumes for the most part… - Travel Provider
Royal Caribbean International
Royal Caribbean sells a mass-market style of cruising that's reasonably priced and offered aboard informal, well-run ships with nearly every diversion imaginable -- craft classes, horse racing, bingo, shuffleboard, deck games, line-dancing lessons, wine-and-cheese tastings, cooking… - Travel Provider
Silversea
Silversea is one of the most luxurious -- and pricey -- cruise lines in the business, and it's known for exquisite service, gourmet cuisine, and spacious and elegant all-suite accommodations. The line offers an impressive enrichment program with naturalists, well-known authors, and… - Travel Provider
Sport Fishing Alaska
Choose this company to plan a fishing vacation. The owner, former lodge operator Sheary Suiter, knows where the fish will be week to week. That means SFA books clients at fly-in fishing lodges when and where the fishing is hot -- a critical piece of information that can be difficult… - Travel Provider
St. Elias Alpine Guides
When you're ready for a real expedition, these are real professionals in real wilderness. Having given up on McKinley years ago as too crowded, they specialize in trekking, climbing, and floating the deep and rugged wilderness of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Theirs is the only… - Travel Provider
Viking Travel
Entrepreneurs in the small Southeast Alaska town of Petersburg built this agency, initially specializing in independent outdoor trips in their own area. Today, besides offering all the usual services of a travel agency, they plan trips for the whole state, offer money-saving airfare…
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The Best Museums in Alaska
Sitka National Historical Park: The historic park, its buildings, and other structures in Sitka keep alive an alternate stream in history: one in which a Russian czar ruled Alaska and this little town was one of the most important on the west coast of North America.The Alaska…
The Best Native Cultural Experiences in Alaska
Ketchikan Totem Poles: The junction of three totem-making tribes -- Tlingits, Haida, and Tsimshian -- the island has three unique places to see totem poles: historic poles indoors at the Totem Heritage Center, faithful reproductions outdoors in a natural setting at Totem Bight State…
