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Books & Travel guides

Some of the books you will only find in  Alaska, mostly in the local Visitor's Centers. 


 
• Alaska - Travel Survival Kit (Jim DuFresne) - Lonely Planet Publications, 1994, 442 pp.
  "THE" handbook about Alaska. Simply indispensable for anyone traveling in The Last Frontier, even if it isn't a 'Survival' trip.
• Backpacking in Alaska (Jim DuFresne) - Lonely Planet Publications, 256 pp.
  I didn't read it myself, but I suppose it will be more 'survival' than the Travel Survival Kit.
• Alaska - Insight Guides (Hans Höfer) - APA Publications, 1994, 325 pp.
  Beautyful book with a lot of background information about Alaska. Not so handy when traveling. The 40 pages of "Travel Tips" are really usefull.
• Alaska - A to Z (Angela M. Herb) - Vernon Publications, Inc., 1993, 189 pp.
  A micro-encyclopedia about the history, culture, geography and wildlife of Alaska.
• Alaska's Mammals - Alaska Pocket Guide (Dave Smith) - Alaska Northwest Books, 1995, 94 pp.
• Alaska's Birds - Alaska Pocket Guide (Robert H. Armstrong) - Alaska Northwest Books, 1994, 124 pp.
• Alaska's Wild Plants - Alaska Pocket Guide (Janice J. Schofield) - Alaska Northwest Books, 1993, 95 pp.
  Three small guides giving an overview of Alaska's fauna and flora, with good pictures and short descriptions. The Wild Plants Guide is somewhat too concise : some obvious plants don't appear in this guide.
  The Alaska MILEPOST - Vernon Publications, Inc., yearly, 754 pp.
  Yearbook with up-to-date information about Alaska and Northwest Canada, citymaps, highway maps with mileage recordings about food, gas, lodging, restaurants, campgrounds, etc.  A lot of advertising too, but useful when looking for a bed or food.
  The ALASKA Wilderness Guide - Vernon Publications, Inc., 1996, 500 pp.
  A guide about what the adventurous backpacker should know before entering Alaska's backcountry.

  The following guides look interesting, but I didn't read them myself :
   

• Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway, 2nd Edition (Ed & Lynn Readicker-Henderson) - Hunter Publishing, 400 pp.
  A guide to traveling the Highway, from British Columbia through the Yukon and Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. It contains activities off the Highway, plus the newly opened far north section and the Pipeline Road. The book includes sections on Fairbanks, Anchorage, Dawson City, Skagway and all the smaller towns along the route. In addition, there is also information on sidetrips on the Glacier Highway, Denali Highway, Richardson Highway and Top-of-the-World Highway.
• The Adventure Guide to The Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska, 3rd Edition (Lynn & Ed Readicker-Henderson) - Hunter Publishing, 400 pp.
  This guide describes everything aling the route of the Alaska Marine Highway. The book is targeted at anyone traveling in this region, not just those taking the ferry.
• Alaska-Yukon Hankbook, 6th Edition, Moon Travel Handbooks, 500 pp, 81 maps
• Pacific Northwest, 2nd Editon, The Rough Guides, 688 pp, 56 maps
• Alaska & the Pacific Northwest - Let's Go books
• The Kluane National Park Hiking Guide - BC Books
• Southcentral Alaska -  A Comprehensive Guide to the Hiking & Canoeing Trails & Public-Use Cabins (Alan Jubenville) - Hunter Publishing, ? pp.
  A guide to the region's many trails, it describes every step of planning a trip before launching into profiles of over 120 trails.  With maps, photos and information about choosing the right trail, clothing, essential equipment, trail conditions, climate and wildlife.
• Adventuring in Alaska, 4th Editon (Peggy Wayburn) - Sierra CLub Books, 384 pp.
• Alaska River Guide : Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting in the Last Frontier, (Karen Jettmar),Alaska Northwest Books, 304 pp.
• Guide to Sea Kayaking Southeast Alaska, The Best Trips from Misty Fjords to Glacier Bay (Jim Howard), 1999, The Globe Pequot Press, 240pp

Sites with additional books about Alaska and Yukon :
 

• The Globe Corner Bookstore - Geographic Catalog of Alaska
• Adventurous Traveler Bookstore - Alaska Book and Map List
• Amazon.com - On-line bookstore
• Lost Moose, the Yukon Publishers
• BC Books - books about British Columbia and West-Canada
• Alaska Vistas' Bookstore

Maps

• Gousha Road Maps - Alaska
  One of the better maps, with 5 road maps on different scales and city maps of Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan. 
• Rand McNally - Alaska State Map
  Scale 1:4,750,000
• The Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (Univ of Texas, Austin) - Alaska Maps
  An on-line collection of maps about Alaska.
• Trailmonkey - Alaskan Hiking page, Yukon Hiking page 
   

Weather

• National Weather Service, Alaska Region - very up-to-date.
• Intellicast - Alaska local weather
• WeatherOffice - Canadian website
• The Weather Channel -
• Alaska Climate Research Center - with also climatological data
• Winter Road Condition Report - Condition of the  highways (between 15 October and 15 April)
• Yahoo!Weather - with online satellite image of Alaska
• The Weather Network - Yucon

Travelogues

• Travels with Samanta
  • Chapter VIII: Alaska at Last
  • Chapter IX: Denali
  • Chapter X: Overcharged in Katmai
  • Chapter XI: Kenai Peninsula, lesbians, Jews, and strange bedfellows
  • Chapter XII: Marine Highway to Juneau and south to Vancouver
• Mikey's Arctic Circle on a Harley Sportster
• Frantisek Brabec's Photoalbum of a trip to British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska
• Homepage of Dale & Cindy Wilkins who went to Alaska 3 times
• Arctic Dawn - The Journeys of Samuel Hearne - the 18th century travelogue of an explorer in Northern Canada
• The Dempster Highway - a bike trip from Dawson to Inuvik
• Alaskan Memories 
• Postcards from Alaska  - beautiful photos of a boatrip through the Inside Passage
• An expedition on Mt McKinley - by Quang-Tuan Luong, with magnificent pictures
• Wintermaanden in Alaska - by Arjan Vergeer, a story (in dutch) of a dog sled trip, with photos
• Alaska 1999 Reisverslag - by Jasper Schaap (in dutch) who traveled in  Alaska and Yukon.
• Alaska, 1998 - Epi van Winsen visited some interesting places in Alaska (dutch)
• Alaska Travelogue - Filip Claeys made beautiful pictures while travelling around in July 1999. 
• Alaska, the final frontier - Ysbrand Graafsma, wrote an interestng story with beautiful pictures about six weeks in Alaska in 1999.
   

  Other travelogues can be found on Rec.Travel Library
   

Outdoor Information

• CanoeAlaska - A good way to leave civilization behind ... 
  Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association - non-profit trade association which promotes the recognition and protection of Alaska's wild places. 
• Alaska Outdoor Adventures - 'Adventure Travel Guide'
• Alaska's Mountain Magazine - 
• Redoubt Bay Lodge - an ideal place for bear-viewing (Big River Lakes)
• Alaska Rivers -  Index from the American Whitewater Affiliation
• GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) - Alaska section 
• GORP - Alaska Photo Gallery
• Wild Alaska Glacier Bay  Adventure and Fishing Charters - Observing whales from a 57-foot cruising sailboat
• Denali Backcountry Guides - 
• St. Elias Alpine Guides - 
• Alaska Mountaineering School - 

General information

• YukonWeb - Website about the Yukon. Most interesting pages are :
  • Yukon Notebook
  • Travel & Tourism
• Yukon Tourism Home Page
• Internet Alaska - internet service provider
• State of Alaska Online - State of Alaska Information Server
• Alaska Online (AlaskaOnline.org)
• Alaska Division of Tourism - Department of Community andEconomic Development
• Travel Alaska - Site of the Alaska Tourism Marketing Council (travelalaska.com)
• North to Alaska
• Alaska Internet Travel Guide (AlaskaOne.com)
• City.Net - USA, Alaska sectie
• City.Net - Yukon Territory
• British Columbia: North by Northwest - the part of BC that borders to Yukon en Alaska
• Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon - 
• Alaska (MyTravelGuide.com)
• Alaska's Best - Online magazine
• Alaska Visitor Information (vacationalaska.com)
• Alaska Visitors Association (visitalaska.org)
• Alaska, The Great Land - National Geographic Society
• Verenigde Staten van Amerika - Alaska (Dutch site)

Cities & Regions

• In general
  • Alaska Community Information Summeries - Overview of Alaskan towns and villages
  • Alaska's Cities, Towns and Villages - on-line database with information about every town in Alaska (Alaska Department of Community & Regional Affairs)
  • Onroute Alaska Destinations -
  • Onroute Yukon Destinations -
  • Yukon Community Profiles - 
  • Canada Far North (About.com)

• Cities
• Anchorage.net - Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Anchorage CityLink
• Around Anchorage, Alaska
• Chilkoot Trail - The route of the Klondike Gold Rush
• Cordova - Chamber of Commerce
• Dawson City - Klondike Visitors Association
• Dawson City (YukonWeb)
• Dawson City
• Dillingham - Chamber of Commerce
• Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Gustavus - 
• Haines Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Homer - Chamber of Commerce
• Homer - Chamber of Commerce (bis)
• Juneau Web - 
• Juneau - Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Juneau, Alaska The Capital City Home Page
• Kenai - Visitors and Convention Bureau
• Kachemak Bay - 
• Ketchikan - Visitors Bureau
• Ketchikan - Chamber of Commerce
• Ketchikan Travel Guide
• Kluane Country
• Nome Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Palmer - Chamber of Commerce
• Petersburg - Chamber of Commerce
• Seward - Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Sitka - Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Sitka
• Skagway - Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Soldotna - Chamber of Commerce
• Tok - Chamber of Commerce
• Tok, Alaska - Information Explorer
• Unalaska/Port of Dutch Harbor - Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Valdez
• Valdez - Convention and Visitor's Bureau
• Whitehorse - Visitor information
• Willow - Chamber of Commerce
• Wrangell - 

• Regions
• Inside Passage -
• Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska -
• The Guide to Southeast Alaska
• Kodiak Island  - General information and travel guide
• Chugiak-Eagle River area
• Kenai Peninsula
• Matanuska & Susitna Valleys (Mat-Su)
• Prince of Wales - Chamber of Commerce
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Wildlife Reserves

• General
  • See also the Outdoors section on this page
  • Alaska's Untamed Parks - Nice article from Outside Magazine (May, 1995)
  • Alaska Parks - from the 'Alaska Internet Travel Guide'
  • National Park Service (Alaska) - Information about the Alaskan National Parks (nps.gov)
  • National Parks Foundation - Alaska (nationalparks.org)
  • Alaska Parks (AreaParks.com)
  • Yahoo!Parks - Alaska
  • Alaska's National Parks - List of commercial activities in the Alaskan National Parks
  • Parks Canada - Canadian National Parks Site
  • Alaska's National Parks Page (us-national-parks.net)
  • Alaska National and State Parks & Preserves (AlaskaOnline.org)
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• Parks
• Chugach National Forest
  • Chugach National Forest - US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service
• Denali National Park & Preserve
  • Denali Summer Times - Interior Alaska Visitor Guide - an on-line source of information about the Denali National Park and Interior Alaska. 
  • Denali Park Resorts - the commercial side of Denali
• Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
  • Gates of the Arctic National Park Page - 
• Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
  • Glacier Bay National Park Page -
• Katmai National Park & Preserve
  • Katmai National Park
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• Kenai Fjords National Park
  • Kenai Fjords National Park
• Kluane National Park (Canada)
  • Kluane National Park
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• Kobuk Valley National Park 
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• Lake Clark National Park
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• Misty Fjords National Monument
  • Misty Fjords - 
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• Tongass National Forest
  • Tongass National Forest - US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service
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• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve 
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• Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
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Transport

• Alaska Railroad - Fares and timetables
• Alaska Marine Highway System - Information, timetables, fares, etc ...
• Alaska Marine Highway System - idem
• Alaska Airlines
• Alaska Transportation Menu - from the 'Alaska Internet Travel Guide'
• Bell's Alaska Travel Guide - Guide about the 'highways and byways' in Alaska
• Grey Line Yukon -
• White Pass & Yukon Route Scenic Railway
• Yukon Road Conditions
• Alcan Highway - History of the Alaska Highway

Other Links

• The Alaska Guide - Commercial site with information about cruises, fishing, hunting, hotels and lodging
• Alaska Connection - Commercial site
• The Great Alaskan Mall - Overview of (commercial) websites in Alaska
• USA Online Alaska - Commerciele site
• Alaska Rainforest Campaign -
• Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush -
• AlyeskaCam - 
• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - 
• The Aurora Page - 
• AlaskaSearch - search engine 
• Alaska Volcano Observatory -
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