Anchorage Historic Walking Tour

Downtown Anchorage is nearly flat, making for a delightful stroll. Throughout the summer, hanging floral baskets line the streets.

Start at the Log Cabin Visitor Information Center, where friendly volunteers answer questions, and provide maps for your walking tour.  Racks of brochures line the walls to inform you about all facets of Alaskan Adventure.

The marble statue in front of Old City Hall next door honors William Seward. Along 4th Avenue are some of Anchorage's original buildings including the 4th Avenue Theater built in 1947. Some of the buildings are dated from 1920, when Anchorage was incorporated.

Cater corner from the Old City Hall is the Alaska Public Lands information Center, one of four in the state that provideinformation on all of Alaska's public lands. Take F Street north downhill to 2nd Avenue, the site of original town-site homes built by the Alaska Engineering Commission, which also built the Alaska Railroad in the early 1900s. Walk east along 2nd Avenue past the Eisenhower Memorial to a set of stairs leading down to the Alaska Railroad depot. Salmon run up Ship Creek, north of the depot, all summer.

The Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, is arecreational trail that begins west of 2nd Avenue and curls along Cook Inlet. Follow 2nd Avenue to K Street, go south a block to 3rd Avenue, and follow 3rd Avenue westward to Resolution Park, with its statue of Captain Cook. From here you can admire the grand vistas over Cook Inlet to Mt. McKinley and other peaks in the Alaska Range. The Oscar Anderson House Museum, off the coastal trail at the north end of Elderberry Park, was Anchorage's first permanent frame house, built in 1915 by city butcher Oscar Anderson.

If young travelersare getting restless, head back up the 5th Avenue hill and take a right on L street and head up 6th Avenue to the Imaginarium, an experiential science museum with a great gift shop. Walk down 5th Avenue, past the Egan Convention Center, whose lobby has several modern Native Alaskan sculptures. Across the street is a park (Town Square) that's packed with flowers in the summer, and just southwest of it is the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

Continue down 6th Ave past the Kimballbuilding one of Anchorage's first commercial buildings built in 1915 and the Alaska State Troopers Museum. A Street and 7th Avenue is the location for the entrance to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, which occupies the whole block between 6th and 7th avenues. The red metal sculpture out front is a favorite hide-and-seek site for children. The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 535 East 9th Ave and celebrates many people's lives that built the Last Frontier.

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Other Tours in Anchorage:
Grand Highlights and Glacier Cruise/Tour
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Anchorage Flightseeing Safari
Prince William Sound Glacier Flightseeing Tour
Anchorage Market & Festival
Lake Clark National Park Bear Viewing Tour
Glacier And Wildlife Flightseeing Tour
Explore Anchorage City Tour with Dinner
Portage Glacier Cruise/Tour
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center

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