Resurrection bay is a truly beautiful place. It’s rugged cliffs, deep blue glaciers, abundant diversity of marine life, and its gorgeous backdrop of snow-capped mountains is sure to leave a lasting impression on you. While you’re in Seward, make sure not to miss out on the opportunity to get out into the bay. You could take a Seward day cruise, or you could opt for a more peaceful, personal experience, and Continue reading
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Alaska Independent Tours VS Escorted Tours
Alaska Denali Tours mostly offers self-guided independent tours. You can completely customize your activities, lodging, and transportation to fit the Alaska experience you are looking for. However, if you are the kind of traveler who likes to be with a guided group, Alaska escorted tours might be a better choice. To help you decide, here is a list of the benefits of both styles of touring in Alaska. Continue reading
Alaska Vacation Ideas Part 3
Wilderness Lodges:
There are various wilderness lodges in Alaska but for a beautiful location, a great adventure, comfortable modern lodging, and friendly service, our Denali Backcountry Lodge has no equal. Our remote lodge lies at the very end of the restricted 92 mile Denali National Park Road, nestled in a snug valley carved by Moose Creek as it winds to the Yukon. Offering various activities like Continue reading
Alaska Vacation Ideas Part 2
Wildlife Viewing:
Alaska truly has a diverse range of wildlife including bears, moose, foxes, wolves, caribou, eagles and really too many to mention. To have a good chance at getting a glimpse, you need to go off the beaten path a bit, and visit a more remote location. A great place to see wildlife is inside the famed Denali National Park. Continue reading
Northern Lights in Alaska
Aurora Borealis; come see the light show!
Northern Lights in Alaska
Alaska is known for big outdoors and lots of adventures during summer times. People come from all over the lower 49 states and world over to see Denali, the highest mountain in North America, experience its grandeur and to see wild life in the famous Denali
National Park, one of the top visited destinations in Alaska.
Alaskan summer is known for long day light times because of Alaska’s location in northern latitude. It’s precisely because of such location; Alaska is the perfect place to see Aurora borealis, also known as Northern Lights. Northern Lights are best seen during dark cold nights; hence during winter time in Alaska one can truly witness the magic in the sky. Thus it’s a general knowledge that one can see northern lights in Alaska during winter time. That is true; however, we can also see northern lights in Alaska during summer nights.
By the month of August, it starts getting dark during night. Typically in the first week of August the day light time starts from 5:30 AM till 10:30 PM. The
best time to observe aurora is near local midnight, when the most active forms often occur. More precisely, the time to shoot for is an hour or two prior to
local geomagnetic midnight. If you are a serious aurora watcher, dress warmly and plan to spend the night from about 9 P.M. to 3 A.M. watching for aurora
action.
Where you stay is not as important as arranging for transportation outside town to avoid city lights, and to acquire a clear view of the northern horizon. On August 3, 2010, there is going to be a moderate aurora activity followed by August 4 and 5 with active aurora activity, and based on University of Alaska Fairbanks Geological Institute, weather permitting, active aurora displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Anchorage and Juneau, and visible low on
the horizon from King Salmon and Prince Rupert.
So go out and enjoy the splendor of our universe!
