We love Chilkoot Lake State Park and spend lots of time here, but a really special way to experience both the beauty of the lake and the wildlife is by doing a guided kayaking tour on Chilkoot Lake.

Whether you're traveling out to the far flung, black sand beaches of the Aleutian Islands or deep in the woods of Tongass National Forest, where hikers can safely watch bears in their own habitat, ...

The wrinkled Blackstone Glacier absorbs every color of the spectrum except blue, so the crevasses are a brilliant, Gatorade-like aquamarine. Megan Gambino Foamy salt water sloshes up onto the little ...

My daughter has been a guide these past eight summers in Alaska, and for her to be this excited convinced me: Tracy Arm must be very special indeed. A quick phone call from my wilderness guide ...

It's one of the most vertical, not to mention evocatively named, places in Alaska. A place with granite walls reminiscent of Yosemite -- if Yosemite plunged down to seawater, with sprays of fragrant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month, Pascal Smyth completed a 2,202km kayak journey from Canada to Alaska. Smyth, 35, set off from Vancouver on May 1 and ...

The wrinkled Blackstone Glacier absorbs every color of the spectrum except blue, so the crevasses are a brilliant, Gatorade-like aquamarine. Megan Gambino Foamy salt water sloshes up onto the little ...