Anchorage really is the last frontier. It's filled with the best outdoors you can get anywhere, in our option, great views, and when it's not snowing, great weather.
Outdoors Rating: 5/5
Anchorage really is the best when it comes to outdoors. Anchorage is the biggest city in all of Alaska but even here you are always so close to wilderness. You can do it all here. Anything from fishing to seeing wildlife, it has it all. We ended up seeing a moose just walking on the side of the highway. Of course we had to stop and say hello!
City Safeness/ Upkeep: 1/5
If you look up the most dangerous cities in the United States, you will find Anchorage on that list. While during the day it feels normal, night time you can feel a different air to the city. We do hear that some hotels do lock their doors at night, but we've never experienced it until Anchorage. While most of the crime doesn't target tourists, it's best to rent a car for getting around at night. We were out past 2am looking for the northern lights and didn't have a problem.
Food: 3.5/5
Beer: 3/5
The food in Anchorage is pretty good. The fish we had was all locally caught and was amazing! Probably the best fish we've had in the states so far along with San Diego. One of the real highlights was the reindeer sausage. There's a cart right in downtown. Don't knock it till you try it! It's the perfect snack while shopping in the city.
Since wine is the forte of Alaskans, we tried the local beers. Now, all the beer we go off now unfortunately was the German beer from the Lufthansa lounge in Munich which was out of this world, and the Swiss beer from the Swiss Alpine lounge in Zürich so the standards are high. The brews were slightly above average and there were lots of variety especially at the brewery we went to our last night.
Overall Rating: 3.5/5
Overall we really loved Anchorage. The views are very hard to beat especially in the lower 48. For being the biggest city in the state, it doesn't have that big city vibe and lacks what many big cities have to offer. For the outdoorsy person though, it is a massive playground with so many things to offer in summer and winter. If you can think of it, you can probably do it outdoors here.
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