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Region of the U.S. state of Alaska
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By train
The Alaska Railroad runs passenger trains to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula in the summer and north to Fairbanks year round.
By car
There are plenty of rental car agencies in Anchorage, but it is important to book ahead in the high season.
By boat
Another way of getting here is the Alaska Marine Highway
By bus
There is a bus service south to the Kenai year round.
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Alaska's largest city and seaport, located on the north end of Cook Inlet, between Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm.
Anchor Point is an unincorporated community on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska. It is the westernmost point in the North American highway system.
Cordova is a town in Southcentral Alaska.
Cooper Landing in Alaska is a small town located on the Kenai Peninsula, 100 mi (160 km) south of Anchorage. The town sits between on the shores of Kenai Lake and the banks of the Kenai River.
Mostly residential area 10 mi north of Anchorage.
Home of Alaska's largest downhill ski area at Alyeska, and the 2007 US Alpine Ski Championships.
Glennallen is in Southcentral Alaska.
A very popular fishing town at the end of the Sterling Highway, on Kachemak Bay.
Kenai is a town of 8,000 people (2018) in Southcentral Alaska.
A ghost town that lies within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It was the town that served the workers at the Kennecott Copper Mines in the early 1900s.
A two street town that hasn't changed much in the last 40 years. It's on the highway about 29 mi north of Seward.
Nikiski is on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska.
Alaska's first major farming community and lies in the Matanuska Valley about 40 mi north of Anchorage.
One of Alaska's major seaports that was used during World War II to protect its country. Major cruise lines stop here and the Alaska Railroad starts here.
Soldotna is a city on the banks of the Kenai River, in the center of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska.
The closest major town to Denali, a 2.5 hour drive north of Anchorage and jump-off point for Denali mountain climbers & flight-seeing.
Farthest north ice-free port in the US and is at the beginning of the Richardson Highway. The terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (formerly Alyeska Pipeline).
originally was a stop on the highway at Teeland's General store, but started developing in the 1970s after the Parks Highway was built, and has become a well-established town.
This town is now the beginning of the famous Iditarod Race, after its official start in Anchorage.
Willow Creek is a small village in the Copper River Valley in Southcentral Alaska near the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
at Kenai Fjords, glaciers, earthquakes, and ocean storms are the architects.
the continent's largest assemblage of glaciers and greatest collection of peaks above
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