A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Alaska

Alaska State Capitol

Juneau, AK

Juneau is the only U.S. state capital with no road access — you can only reach it by air or sea.

Sitka National Historical Park

Sitka, AK

Site of the 1867 ceremony transferring Alaska from Russia to the United States, and an earlier 1804 battle between Russian and Tlingit forces.

Denali National Park and Preserve

Denali Park, AK

Six million acres around the highest peak in North America.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Skagway, AK

The boomtown and the brutal Chilkoot Trail that stampeders climbed in 1897.

Kennecott Mines

McCarthy, AK

An abandoned copper-mining town of red mill buildings inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, a National Historic Landmark.

Independence Mine State Historical Park

Palmer, AK

The buildings of a hard-rock gold mine in Hatcher Pass that was among Alaska's most productive in the 1930s.

Castle Hill State Historic Site

Sitka, AK

The hill where Russia formally handed Alaska to the United States on October 18, 1867.

Aleutian World War II National Historic Area

Unalaska, AK

Dutch Harbor, bombed by Japan in June 1942, with bunkers and a visitor center on the Aleutian campaign.

Alaska Native Heritage Center

Anchorage, AK

A cultural center with traditional dwellings from Alaska's major Native cultures around a lake.

Alaska Aviation Museum

Anchorage, AK

A museum on Lake Hood, the busiest seaplane base in the world, of the bush pilots who opened Alaska.

Iditarod Trail Headquarters

Wasilla, AK

The headquarters and museum of the Iditarod sled dog race, which honors the 1925 serum run to Nome.