Author: Chris

Soldotna, Alaska Soldotna is a city on the Kenai Peninsula known for its world-class fishing, particularly for sockeye salmon on the Kenai River. The city is located along the mighty Kenai River about 10 miles east...

Located on the upper shores of the Cook Inlet, Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city with a population of about 288,000 people. More than half of the state’s population lives in Anchorage. The city sits...

In 1906, a man by the name of Charles Sheldon came to what is now Denali National Park and Preserve to study the little-known Dall sheep. He was awed by the rugged landscape, but...

The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line of latitude at approximately 66°33′ north of the equator, marking the southern limit of the Arctic region. It’s significant because it delineates the area where, for at least...

In 1901, E.T. Barnette established a trading post on the Chena River to sell supplies to miners heading to the goldfields. The discovery of gold near Barnette’s post led to the influx of people...

The Alaska Highway was the engineering marvel of World War II and has often been described as the largest and most difficult construction project since the Panama Canal. The building of the highway took...

At more than 2.7 million acres, Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. Originally created in 1907 as the Jasper Park Forest Reserve, it was redesignated as Jasper National...

When the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad first traversed the Canadian Rockies in 1883, the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway named the area Banff after his birthplace of Banffshire, Scotland. The Banff Springs Hotel quickly became...

Lincoln Home National Historic Site Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer with only one year of frontier schooling when he rode his horse into Springfield, Illinois in 1837. Lincoln was already serving in the...

Long before European settlers arrived in St. Louis, Mississippian people lived here and built large earthen mounds between 1050-1200 AD. Most of the mounds were platforms for homes and ceremonial sites, while others were...