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In a few months it’ll possibly be winter here, so do dress warmly in layers. Can’t help you too much with possible activities without knowing a bit more specifically when you’ll actually be here. You might be able to walk to a glacier in November, for instance, but you’re not going to be able to hop a glacier cruise cos most of them shut down mid-Sept. Give me a bit more specific time and I might be able to help, tho’, cos I do live in Alaska, albeit now about an hour’s north of Anchorage. Lived there almost seven months, tho’, including my first winter, so I have some ideas. BTW, Denali Park is largely closed to vehicle traffic after the first snowfalls, as are many tourist attractions, so you’ll need to focus on winter stuff if you’re planning on being here even three months from now, which would put you into November/December. Fortunately, the Northern Lights would be a real possibility around then, but nothing guaranteed.
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The Mat-Su (Matanuska-Susitna) Valley is beautiful. Mountains visible just about any direction you look and close enough to be a long day trip to both Seward and Denali. Wasilla is the most town-like, tho’ despite the strip mall atmosphere that was allowed to grow up along a stretch of the Parks Highway, is still a nice little town, not at all like the critics painted it during the Presidential election. That said, yep, definitely quirky, very small town mentality at times, but still a nice place to live. Palmer has retained more of the “old Alaska” feel, remembering that “old Alaska” isn’t that old, but is having growing pains, too. It has more of a rural feel to it, tho’, but the winds over there can be fierce. Willow is about thirty miles up Parks Hwy. and there really isn’t much there, tho’ if you’re into dog mushing, that’s the place to be. Talkeetna, well, think “Northern Exposure”. It’s just a cool place, I love visiting there, tho’ not close to things for convenience. There are cetainly other places to look into, like Big Lake and Houston (yep, Alaska has a Houston, too), and small, rural areas like Butte, as well as looking north to Sutton. Not sure off the top of my head if Glennallen is in the Valley or not, but may be. Again, nice and more rural than a place like even Palmer, but not convenient.
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