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Oct 17, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Tim Lydon
How a historic influx of federal dollars is remaking Alaska. Above: Wind farm atop Pillar Mountain in Kodiak. Photo by Michelle Theall, wilddepartures.comFederal funding has long been crucial to Alaska’s economy, even before statehood. From the Alcan to the pipeline to our airports and beyond, it props up Alaska’s transportation and energy sectors, providing the infrastructure necessary to move people, fish, oil, and minerals.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Julia Duin
A colorful history of Alaska’s newspaper industry Above: Bob Atwood, publisher of the Anchorage Times: Courtesy of the Atwood FoundationAlaska has a legacy of bigger-than-life media personalities who ruled the presses like old-fashioned newspaper barons.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska
Above: What from an airplane perspective resembled a hostile rucked labyrinth. Courtesy Lisa Hupp, USFWSNote: This excerpt from Mr. Engelhard’s new memoir, Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, (Mountaineers Books) is printed with permission. Day 5 of 58 Map: Table Mountain Barely a day passes without some graphic reminder of mortality, whether close bear encounters or bones scattered on the tundra—a skull, scapula, vertebrae, or mummified leg with hoof attached.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska
Unfortunately, we can no longer offer the Alaska Calendar as a bonus to annual Alaska magazine subscriptions. To obtain your 2025 Alaska magazine calendar, just click the link below and purchase for $11.95 USD, price + shipping $8.00 = $19.95, shipping direct to your mailbox. This year, Calendar paper stock will be heavier than in prior years, and the size is 8”w x 10.5”h. Click here to pre-order your 2025 Alaska Calendar
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska
Alaska magazine is pleased to announce that this publication won numerous awards bestowed by the Alaska Press Club at its annual conference. The awards celebrate and honor the outstanding achievements of Alaskan journalists across various categories.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Michelle Theall
There’s a saying: there’s no such thing as bad weather if you have the right gear. Because I run trips through the winter months to some of the most inhospitable places on Earth and have damaged a few piggy toes with frostbite, I’ve learned the hard way what it takes to stay safe and (almost) toasty in the frigid north.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Nick Jans
Standing on the bank of an arctic river, you gaze down into water so clear you can see char ghosting at the bottom of a 10-foot pool. The river pours downstream, cutting its way through a valley hewn of rock and tundra—a hard, beautiful place cast in surreal light. Your inflatable raft lies skidded up on the gravel, and a pot of water steams over a fire. You’ll make a few casts for dinner and spend the night here, not far from fresh-edged tracks of wolf and grizzly.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Bjorn Dihle
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Taku Glacier Lodge. The lodge has had a number of owners, but none stand out as much as the pioneer and adventurer Mary Joyce. Her story is a local legend, but she’s mostly unknown outside of Juneau. In 1929, Joyce was in her early 20s and working as a nurse in a Los Angeles hospital when she began attending to a patient named Leigh Hackley “Hack” Smith.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska
The images in this archival portfolio prove what we’ve always known: There’s no place on Earth like Alaska. The storied history of our state includes, well, statehood itself, along with catastrophic volcanic eruptions, record-shattering earthquakes, the gold rush, groundbreaking legislation, and the purchase of Alaska from Russia—to name a few.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Patrice La Vigne
When traveling the 350-plus miles between Anchorage and Fairbanks on the George Parks Highway, there are very few pauses in the undeveloped wilderness. One such pocket of civilization is the half-mile swath of roadside businesses outside of Denali National Park and Preserve, commonly known as the Canyon. Since I live in the area and drive by the Canyon often, I became curious about the origins of the place.
