Anchorage Activities

So you’re traveling to the Great State of Alaska and Better yet Anchorage!

Anchorage has been named All American City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/85, and 2002

And we have helped with that for the last 15 years!

Attractions within Walking Distance of the Hotel

• Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Alaska Museum of Natural History
• Anchorage Aviation Heritage Museum
• Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
• Imaginarium: Science Discovery Center
• Oscar Anderson House Museum
• Wells Fargo Alaska Heritage Library & Museum
• Anchorage Park Strip
• Elderberry Park Located near the Port of Anchorage

Activities to do while in Anchorage:

• Potter's March Bird Sanctuary
• Flattop Trail Hike
• Downtown Bicycle Rental
• Anchorage Museum of History & Art
• Alaska Zoo
• Z.J. Loussac Library
• Arctic Rose Gallery
• Point Woronzof
• Goose Lake Park

Bus Tours In Anchorage

• Anchorage City Tour-Grayline (888) 452 1737 www.graylinealaska.com Alaska
• Bus Charters and Tours (907) 278 2929 www.alaskabus.com

Flight Tours In Anchorage

• Era Aviation (907) 248 4422 www.flyera.com
• Rust's Flying Service (907) 243 1595 www.flyrusts.com

Nearby Shops, Restaurants and Businesses

• Conoco Phillips
• Alaska Club Athletic Center
  
• Fifth Avenue Mall
  
• Nordstroms
• Starbuck
  
• Wells Fargo
  
• Mooses Tooth Pizza
  
• Bears Tooth Pub & Theater
  
• Perfect 10 Hair Studio
  
• Anchorage Museum
  
• Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center
  
• Simon & Seafort's
  
• Glacier Brewhouse
  
• Orso Ristorante
  
• Snow City Café
  
• Phyllis's Cafe & Salmon Bake
  
• Benihana

General Anchorage Information

The Anchorage Downtown Hotel is located next to Town Square Park in downtown Anchorage; the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts is a three-part complex, hosting numerous performing arts events each year. The facility can accommodate more than 3,000 patrons. It is home to eight resident performing arts companies and has featured mega-musical performed by visiting companies. The center also hosts the International Ice Carving Competition as part of the Fur Rendezvous festival in February.

The Anchorage Concert Association brings 15 to 20 events to the community each winter. The Sitka Summer Music Festival presents an "Autumn Classics" festival of chamber music for two weeks each September on the campus of Alaska Pacific University.

National attention is focused on Anchorage on the first Saturday of each March, when the prestigious Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off with its ceremonial start downtown on Fourth Avenue. Better known as simply "The Iditarod", the event is the longest and most famous sled dog race in the world. Anchorage is also home to the Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship Sled Dog Races, a three-day dogsled sprint event consisting of 3 timed races of 25.5 miles each. Held each February, the event is part of the annual Fur Rendezvous, a winter sports carnival.

Anchorage currently has two professional sports teams: the Alaska Aces of hockey's ECHL; the Alaska Wild, a member of the Indoor Football League.

Anchorage hosts a number of sporting events. UAA sponsors the annual Great Alaska Shootout, an annual NCAA Division I basketball tournament featuring colleges and universities from across the United States along with the UAA team. This event is held over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

There are 105 miles of maintained ski trails in the city, some of which reach downtown. The same trail system also provides access to Chugach State Park, a 495,000-acre high alpine park.

The Tour of Anchorage is an annual 50-kilometer ski race within the city. and is the Host for the 2009 and 2010 US Senior National Cross Country Ski Championship.