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Things to do in Anchorage, Alaska

During the summer, Anchorage, Alaska is in the heart of the “Land of the Midnight Sun”. 

Go for a stroll or take a ride on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail which hugs the water (pictured, right). You can look across the water and watch sun slide toward the horizon. The sunset lasts for hours—and it never gets completely dark.

In fact, you have to get up really early to see the sun rise over the 3,000-foot mountains to the east of the city.

Another by-product of the long summer days is the robust flowers that spring up all around Anchorage, Alaska. Take a walk around Anchorage's colorful Town Square (below). You'll see flowers of all shapes and sizes. Stroll over to the "Log Cabin" visitor center, where you'll see a mileage chart to many other world capitals.

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Anchorage is located at 61°13'06" North, 149°53'57"

West in South Central Alaska. It lies slightly farther north than Oslo, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. It is northeast of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and Cook Inlet, due north of the Kenai Peninsula, northwest of Prince William Sound and Alaska Panhandle, and nearly due south of Mount McKinley/Denali.

The city of Anchorage, Alaska is on a strip of coastal lowland and

extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains. To the south is Turnagain Arm, a fiord that has some of the world's highest tides. Knik Arm, another tidal inlet, lies to the west and north. The Chugach Mountains on the east form a boundary to development, but not to the city limits, which encompass part of the wild alpine territory of Chugach State Park. The city's seacoast consists mostly of treacherous mudflats.