FAMILY VACATIONS IN ALASKA WITH CHILREN - WHAT TO DO IN ALASKA WITH KIDS
FUN THINGS TO DO ON VACATION WITH KIDS - ALASKA
Ideas for Family Summer Vacations in Alaska - To give your kids a truly unique travel experience this summer, think Alaska.
FUN & ENTERTAINMENT VACATIONS - CENTRAL ALASKA (For example - Rampart, AK - Beaver, AK - McGrath, AK - Wiseman, AK )
Wolf Country USA - Wolf Country USA features a wolf tour, gold panning, RV camper park, gift shop and more. Stop by and take a tour of their tame, friendly wolves. The experience will be a lifetime memory to cherish forever. Try your luck at Gold Panning and shop in their one-of-a-kind gift shop. All surrounded by the beautiful Alaskan mountain ranges with their snow capped tops.
Location: located at Mile 52 Glenn Highway, Palmer, Alaska, north of Anchorage.
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum - Displays vintage aircraft and tells the story of Alaska’s unique aviation history. Located on the shores of the world’s largest floatplane harbor in the world, Lake Hood.
Location: 4721 Aircraft Dr. Anchorage Alaska, 99502 Location: (907) 248-5325
Alaska Botanical Garden - With over 1,100 species of hardy perennials, and 150 native plant species, the Alaska Botanical Garden is the place to experience the abundance of the summer arctic growing season and to learn about flora native to southcentral Alaska.
Location: The Garden is located at 4601 Campbell Airstrip Road in Anchorage, Alaska.
Alaska Experience Center - The center offers two attractions at one site: the Alaska Experience Theatre and the Alaska Earthquake Exhibit. The Experience Theatre treats visitors to a 180-degree, wrap-around screen presentation of "Alaska the Greatland." The 40-minute movie highlights Alaska's wildlife, scenery and people. The Earthquake Exhibit focuses on the 1964 earthquake that destroyed much of Anchorage. The exhibit includes a movie presentation of the quake and interactive displays that describe the Richter Scale, the slide at Earthquake Park and the Tsunami Warning Center.
Location: 705 West Sixth Ave, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Telephone: 907 276 3730
Alaska-Gastineau Gold Mine Tour - Tour a gold mine.
Location: 151 Mill St., Juneau, Alaska Telephone: 907 463 3900
Alaska Museum of Natural History - The mission of the Alaska Museum of Natural History is to collect, conserve, research, interpret, and exhibit natural history materials and data on geology, biology, ecology, archaeology, and human adaptations as found in Alaska; and to promote, develop, and present educational programs that benefit the people and enrich the curricula of the schools and universities in Alaska.
Location: 206 E. Fireweed Lane, Anchorage, AK Telephone: (907) 274-2400
Alaska Native Heritage Center - A place to learn of Alaska’s diverse Native cultures through performing and demonstrating artists, films, displays, and exhibits. Experience the Welcome House and five traditional outdoor villages. A free shuttle departs from Heritage Gifts located downtown in the Village at Ship Creek Center. The Alaska Native Heritage Center is a gathering place that celebrates, perpetuates and shares Alaska Native cultures. Since opening in 1999, the Center has become Alaska's premier interactive cultural destination.
Location: 8800 Heritage Center Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99506 Telephone: (800) 315-6608
Alaska Sealife Center - The Alaska SeaLife Center offers an unrivaled, up-close and personal experience with Gulf of Alaska marine wildlife. Witness a 2000+ pound Steller sea lion gliding past underwater viewing windows, puffins diving in a carefully crafted naturalistic habitat, and harbor seals resting on rocky beaches. Alaskan king crab, sea stars, and the Giant Pacific octopus also await you, as well as a whole variety of intertidal creatures and deep sea fishes.
Location: The Alaska SeaLife Center is located at Milepost 0 of the Seward Highway in spectacular Seward, Alaska, just 125 miles south of Anchorage. You can reach Seward by road, on the Alaska Railroad, with the Alaska Marine Highway System, or by air.
Alaska Zoo - If you've missed seeing Arctic wildlife on your Alaskan adventure, you'll find it at this small zoo, where all the animals have names. You'll see moose, caribou, sheep, wolves, musk oxen, mountain goats and several different types of bears, including polar, grizzly and black bears.
Location: 4731 O'Malley Road, Anchorage, AK 99507 Telephone (907) 346-2133
Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository - Explore 7,500 years of Kodiak’s cultural history at the Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository. The museum preserves and shares the cultural traditions of the Alutiiq people through exhibits, educational programs, publications, anthropological research, and the care of traditional objects.
Location: 215 Mission Road, Suite 101 Kodiak, AK 99615 Telephone: 907-486-7004
Anchorage Museum of History and Art - A world-class facility with a fascinating depiction of Alaska's history and art of the far north. Open year-round, the Museum also features permanent and traveling exhibits, special programs and many annual events. They have exhibits for kids.
Location: 121 W. 7th Ave; Anchorage, AK 99501
Baranov Museum - At the Baranov Museum you can discover the history of Kodiak, Alaska through a variety of permanent and temporary exhibits, educational programs, and special events. Location: 101 Marine Way, Kodiak, Alaska 99615, Telephone: 907-486-5920
Eaglecrest - Known as the "best little ski area in the world" by locals, this winter recreation area offers more than 30 trails covering 640 ski-able acres. Location: 155 South Seward Street, Juneau, Alaska 99801 Telephone: 907-586-5284
Grayline of Alaska - Our Alaska travel vacations include Denali National Park tours, Portage Glacier
cruises, gold rush history, Alaska adventures on our glass-domed railcars and
luxury motor coach tours. On our Alaska travel vacations and tours, see abundant
wildlife and breathtaking scenery during your Alaska tour.
Location: 745 West 4th | Anchorage, AK 99501 Telephone: 206-281-3535
Imaginarium - The Imaginarium, Alaska's only hands-on Science Discovery Center, is designed as a place where people can have fun learning about science by actually doing science. Located in downtown Anchorage, The Imaginarium resembles a living laboratory, where you can stand inside a bubble, ponder the magnitude of the universe in a planetarium, discover ocean life in a marine touch tank, observe and touch exotic reptiles, or learn the principles of physics while playing with specialized toys. Location: 737 West 5th Ave. #G • Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Telephone 907-276-3179
Museum of the Aleutians - The Museum of the Aleutians is a 9,400 square foot building and is the only archaeological research and Museum storage facility for the Aleutian Region.
Museum of Northern Adventure - 24 dioramas with life-size figures, facts and fun. Location: Main St. Talkeetna, AK 99676 Telephone 1: 907-733-3999
Pratt Museum - The Pratt Museum is located in Homer, Alaska, on the shores of Kachemak Bay, approximately 200 miles south of Anchorage, on the Kenai Peninsula. Kachemak Bay, located on the southeast part of Cook Inlet, is circled by mountains, glaciers, and active volcanoes. The region's four national parks, five national wildlife refuges, state parks and critical habitat areas support a diversity of wildlife from seabirds and sea lions to brown bears and the endangered humpback whale. Kachemak Bay is the largest of 23 sites in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) in the nation, and the only one in Alaska.
Location: 3779 Bartlett Street, Homer, Alaska, 99603 Telphone: (907) 235-8635
Prince William Sound Cruises & Tours - Prince William Sound Cruises & Tours is part of Alaska Heritage Tours, an Alaska Native owned and operated company providing exciting wildlife and glacier cruises in the calm, sheltered waters of Prince William Sound. Our wildlife and glacier cruises are perfect for your Alaska vacation. We offer unique routes and destinations in this spectacular marine environment. Make Prince William Sound Cruises & Tours a part of your Alaska vacation.
Location: Anchorage, AK Telephone: 1-877-777-2805
Public Lands Information Center - Learn about Alaska's wildlife and wilderness through a scavenger hunt for children. Location: 605 West Fourth Ave., Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Telephone: 907-271-2737
FUN & ENTERTAINMENT VACATIONS - EASTERN ALASKA (For example - Fairbanks, AK - Eagle, AK - Circle, AK -Tok, AK - Fort Yukon, AK - Juneau, AK)
El Dorado Gold Mine - Join the Binkley family for a trip through Alaska's gold mining history at the El Dorado Gold Mine. Ride the Tanana Valley Railroad for an adventure into the gold fields of the Interior. A two-hour guided tour takes you through a permafrost tunnel where Alaska's history comes alive. Enjoy a walking tour of our mining camp. Meet and talk with Alaska miners as you learn about present day placer mining methods. After a short course in gold mining, grab your own "poke" filled with pay dirt right out of a sluice box and try your hand at panning for gold. Everyone finds gold. Location: 1975 Discovery Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99709 Telephone: 907-479-6673
Fairbanks Ice Museum - Billed as "The Coolest Show in Town," the Ice Museum, in the historic Lacey Street Theater on Second Ave., is home to the Ice Showcase and Freeze Frame. Freeze Frame is a dynamic large screen multi-image presentation that tracks, from start to finish, the process of Ice Art. The Ice Showcase is an 8,000 cubic foot walk-in display case that maintains a constant temperature of 20 degrees. Inside are the results of hours of work on over 40,000 lbs. of world-famous Fairbanks ice. Location: 500 Second Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701
Telephone: 888-655-4020
The Georgeson Botanical Garden - A nationally recognized botanical garden and a member of a national network of educational and research institutions dedicated to plant culture and conservation. It is designed to allow the public to learn about plant culture in the far north. The GBG is one of five botanical gardens in the nation to be a satellite test garden for the International Hardy Fern Foundation.
Greatland River Tours - Greatland River Tours offers sightseeing and meal cruises on its authentic stern wheeler, the Tanana Chief. Location: 1020 Hoselton Road, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709, Telephone: (907)452-TOUR (8687)
Klondike Gold Dredge Tours - Klondike Gold Dredge features 'A Historical Gold Mining Experience' through the relocation, restoration and preservation of an authentic gold dredge, featuring an interpretive presentation including a video, guided dredge tour & gold panning, which brings to life a part of Gold Mining Days Past.
Location: The Klondike Gold Dredge is in Skagway, on the Klondike Highway, 1.7 miles from the beach.
Riverboats Discovery Tours - A long-running and popular tour, this three-and-a-half-hour cruise on a genuine sternwheel riverboat takes you on two rivers past demonstrations of local activities on the shore followed by a tour of a simulated Athabascan Indian village.
Location: 1975 Discovery Dr., Fairbanks, Alaska 99709 Telephone: 866-479-6673
Skagway Street Car - Skagway Street Car Company began in 1923 when local Skagway Ford Dealer, Coal Deliveryman, and Undertaker Martin Itjen took President Warren G. Harding for a tour “To All Points of Interest” in the back of his painted coal delivery truck. Martin continued touring for nearly 20 years with his original three “Street Cars.” Steve Hites now keeps Martin’s tour alive in Skagway with the help of a talented crew of costumed conductors. An Alaskan historian and acclaimed performer, Hites makes sure that Martin’s original saying holds true: “If you’ve missed this, you’ve missed it all!”
Location: 270 2nd Avenue, Skagway, Alaska 99840 Telephone: (907) 983-2908
Skagway Fishing Charter, Alaska - -Skagway Alaska fishing charters for trophy salmon and lingcod. Master Guide Greg Jones gives all out effort. Experience heart-pounding sportfishing action.
University of Alaska Museum of the North - Voted "Best museum in Alaska." Fascinating stories about Alaska's people, places and wildlife. State's largest gold display, Native art, audio guide, summer shows, museum store.
Location: 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775 Telphone: 907.474.7505
Bering Land Bridge - The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote national park areas, located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. The Preserve is a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago. The majority of this land bridge, once thousands of miles wide, now lies beneath the waters of the Chukchi and Bering Seas.
Location: Nome, Alaska
