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Alasca · the United States
In the destination Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula.
In the photo: Access to Girdwood in summer
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Mountain village in a valley of temperate rainforest beside the Turnagain Arm, part of the Municipality of Anchorage. It began as a gold-mining settlement in the late 19th century and today depends on the Mount Alyeska ski area, with an aerial tramway open year-round. It lies on the route to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Portage Glacier, Whittier and Seward.
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The local experience
The mountain of Girdwood’s ski area, above the Turnagain Arm, with an aerial tramway up to a station about 700 meters above sea level. From the top you can see hanging glaciers, the valley and the arm of the sea; in winter there is heavy-snow skiing; in summer, hiking trails.
An approximately 80-hectare sanctuary at the end of the Turnagain Arm, near Girdwood, that cares for orphaned or injured Alaskan animals such as brown and black bears, moose, wood bison, muskoxen, caribou and wapiti, seen up close from a car or on foot.
