{"id":61500,"date":"2022-02-11T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/alaska\/75-reason-to-love-alaska\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:46:28","slug":"75-reasons-to-visit-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/travel-inspiration\/75-reasons-to-visit-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Reason to Love Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, Alaska … how we love you so! On Sunday, Feb. 13, Holland America Line marks 75 days until the start of our Alaska season! In 2022, we’re getting ready to mark 75 years of exploring Alaska<\/a> \u2014 longer than it\u2019s been a state \u2014 so today we’re honoring the Great Land with \u201c75 Reasons to Love Alaska.\u201d <\/p>\n

While there are hundreds of reasons to love Alaska, we selected 75 that our guests can experience on a Holland America Line cruise or overland Cruisetour:<\/p>\n

1. Glacier Bay<\/a>
\n2. Mt. Denali<\/a>
\n3. Tongass National Forest
\n4. Bald eagles
\n5. The Big Five: bear<\/a>, moose, caribou, wolf, Dall sheep
\n6. Inside Passage
\n7. Hubbard Glacier
\n8. White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The scenic White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.<\/p><\/div>\n

9. Misty Fjords<\/a>
\n10. Dutch pea soup on deck
\n11. McKinley Explorer domed rail cars
\n12. Red Onion in Skagway
\n13. Tracy Arm
\n14. Twin Sawyer Glaciers
\n15. Stephens Passage
\n16. McKinley Chalet Resort
\n17. Fortress of the Bear
\n18. Klondike Gold Rush
\n19. College Fjord
\n20. Denali Square at the McKinley Chalet Resort <\/p>\n

\"Denali<\/a>

Denali Square at the McKinley Chalet Resort is the ideal basecamp for the Denali experience.<\/p><\/div>\n

21. BBC Earth Alaska in Concert
\n22. Artists in Residence at Denali Square
\n23. Junior Ranger program
\n24. Whale watching<\/a>
\n25. Margerie Glacier
\n26. Otters
\n27. Red Dog Saloon in Juneau
\n28. Glacier calving
\n29. Five kinds of salmon: King, Sockeye, Silver, Pink, and Chum
\n30. Totem Bight State Park
\n31. Karsten\u2019s at Denali Square
\n32. Alaska Raptor Center
\n33. Tracy\u2019s King Crab Shack
\n34. Creek Street in Ketchikan<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Ketchikan’s colorful, historic buildings of Creek Street.<\/p><\/div>\n

35. Tatoosh Islands
\n36. Glacier Bay National Park Rangers
\n37. Native weavings
\n38. Kenai Fjords National Park
\n39. Prince William Sound
\n40. Native Cultures \u2013 Tlingit, Hoonah, Haida, Tsimshian and more
\n41. Port to Table demonstrations featuring local fare
\n42. EXC Alaska\u2019s Iconic Whales
\n43. Kayaking
\n44. Alaska Brewing Co. beer
\n45. Saxman Native Village
\n46. Westchester Lagoon
\n47. Fly fishing<\/a>
\n48. Hiking
\n49. Native carvings
\n50. Panning for gold
\n51. Northern Lights
\n52. Mount Roberts Tram<\/a> in Juneau
\n53. Glass blowing
\n54. Admiralty Island
\n55. Mendenhall Glacier<\/a>
\n56. Salmon bakes
\n57. Kincaid Park
\n58. Glacier Gardens
\n59. Gastineau Channel
\n60. Taku Glacier
\n61. Bagley Ice Field
\n62. Dog sledding<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dog<\/a>

Dog sledding is the quintessential Alaskan experience.<\/p><\/div>\n

63. Ice fields
\n64. Salty Dawg Saloon in Homer
\n65. Axe throwing
\n66. Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show
\n67. EXC Iditarod: The Last Great Race
\n68. Chugach State Park
\n69. Taku Glacier
\n70. Bering Sea crab fishing<\/a>
\n71. Cliffs of St Lazaria Island
\n72. Music of Denali show
\n73. Nenana River
\n74. Tundra Mountain Golfing
\n75. Chilkoot Trail<\/a><\/p>\n

Did your favorite reason to love Alaska make the list? Tell us what it is in the comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, Alaska … how we love you so! On Sunday, Feb. 13, Holland America Line marks 75 days until the start of our Alaska season! In 2022, we’re getting ready to mark 75 years of exploring Alaska \u2014 longer than it\u2019s been a state \u2014 so today we’re honoring the Great Land with \u201c75 Reasons to Love Alaska.\u201d While there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"featured_media":61501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[4206],"class_list":["post-61500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-inspiration","category-where-to-travel","tag-destinations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67925,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61500\/revisions\/67925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}