Anchorage City Tour and Highlights
Description
This Anchorage City & Highlights Tour is a fantastic way to spend your morning or afternoon. If you are short on time and looking for a fun way to explore the city in just a couple of hours, this is a great option. Scenic stops with a couple of short walks allows you time to get out of the vehicle and see more. Get the highlights & learn the history of Alaska's big city & be back in time for lunch or dinner. Look for moose along the way. Culture, history, nature, scenic viewpoints and overlooks (maybe even some wildlife) all in about 2 to 2.5 hours!
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Drive along the banks of Ship Creek on the way to the small boat launch. Marvel at the lineup of fisherman trying to catch salmon during the summer spawning season!
All summer long Alaskans line the banks of Ship Creek trying to catch salmon. Visit the mouth of Ship Creek, once a fish camp used by the Dena'ina that would harvest spawning salmon. At this stop we will see the statue of Grandma Olga, an important Dena'ina matriarch who depicts scenes of life at a subsistence fish camp.
Drive by Lake Hood, the busiest float plan base in the world! Stop for a few minutes to take a picture and hopefully watch a float plane take off or land. Learn a bit about Alaska aviation at this scenic viewpoint.
Follow your guide on a short walk in Earthquake Park to learn about the Great Alaska Earthquake that rocked southcentral Alaska in 1964. Watch out for moose in this area!
Drive up to a scenic city overlook of Anchorage at the Glen Alps / Flattop Mountain Trailhead for a short walk. One of the access points to Chugach State Park and various hiking trails in the Chugach Mountains. Look out across Cook Inlet and see a bird's eye view of the Turnagain Arm & Knik Arm. Look out for moose on the drive!
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(161)
I don’t think this tour was very worthwhile. The guide was pleasant and somewhat informative, but to me it seemed like a waste of time.
Frontier tours did an outstanding job. Alex was personable, knowledgeable and fun! Mitch and I really enjoyed her "local" stories about Lake Hood and the Anchorage area.
This tour was very highly recommended and now we know why. Alex was an amazing knowledgeable guide and the small group was perfect. If you want to learn about Anchorage, this is the tour to get.
Got to see a lot of the city in just a few hours. Good historical info such as the impact of the 1964 earthquake, salmon industry, and founding of the city. Alex had some funny stories about pigs and such—join a tour to learn more.
Enjoyable and informative tour. Alex was our tour guide and she was very knowledgeable and pleasant sense of humor. Got lucky to see some Beluga Whales in port for Grandma Olga stop. Enjoyed this tour and would recommend for seeing some highlights of Anchorage.
This was a great tour! Our tour guide was amazing. She was so knowledgeable. We learned a lot about Alaska (past and present). Enjoyed all the stops and saw a black bear during our travels! I highly recommend this tour, especially if it’s your first time visiting Anchorage.
This was an amazing tour. We learned so much about Anchorage. We highly recommend this tour!
David was a wonderful guide and very knowledgeable about Anchorage history. Comfortable transport and reasonably priced.
The pickup location was easy to find and David was there 10 minutes before the scheduled departure as stated. The tour was very nice and David was extremely knowledgeable. I would recommend this tour to everyone that wants to learn more about Anchorage and it's surroundings.
Amazing tour! David, our guide, was great, he’s friendly and an excellent speaker, who shared fascinating stories about Anchorage, its history, its people etc. Perfect number of stops, highlight being the top of Hillside with stunning views. Learning about Grandma Olga was fascinating as well. Highly recommend!
