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Wild Alaska Live Premiers In the Last Frontier
It’s pretty clear already that Alaskans are going crazy for the new PBS three-night series Wild Alaska Live. Based in Juneau but featuring teams of correspondents on the ground at several Alaska locations, the series follows the naturally-occurring event of Alaska’s annual salmon run, stretching viewers’ beliefs and perceptions about not only Alaska, but the […]
Driving the McCarthy Road – Should you?
This is the first in a two-part series about McCarthy and Kennecott adventures with kids for the Alaska Dispatch News. McCarthy Road stories are the stuff of Alaska legend. Chunks of wooden railroad ties rising from a lumpy gravel surface to infiltrate car tires. Metal spikes appearing out of nowhere. Vehicles nearly colliding on single-lane […]
RV or Hotel or What? Alaska by the numbers
It can be positively maddening, the search for vacation lodging options. Anywhere, never mind in Alaska. Should you put your clan in a hotel room with two queen beds, or book a vacation rental, or what? And what’s with the RV thing, anyway? People tell you it’s a great way to see Alaska for the […]
Join us on this very special Iditarod 2018 Adventure
by Erin Kirkland Anyone who follows AKontheGO knows our business mantra: Kids who visit Alaska today may well grow up to become the stewards of Alaska tomorrow. It is a part of our core mission to provide information and ideas for activities, winter, spring, summer, or fall that will engage kids and help them become […]
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