What To Do For Fun in Downtown Anchorage Alaska

I know people who move into Anchorage from other areas must say “What is there to do for fun in Anchorage, Alaska?”

Anchorage is a great town to walk-about!

Before I get to it, I better tell you “Lower 48” is how “sourdoughs” or “old-timers” in Alaska talk about the “other continental States”. When you hear them say “I’m going outside”, they may not mean to the curb, they may be “going outside the State!”

Anyway, there are many things to do! I think I’ll start just a “walk-about” in Downtown Anchorage. This is a small incomplete list, of things you can easily walk to from right down town.

Town Square Park This small park is located net to the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. In the summer the park is full of beautiful flowers and scheduled steadily with events and entertainers.

Log Cabin / Downtown Visitors Center The log cabin and downtown brochure center is a charming cabin and is a “must photograph” spot! This is where you will find a large variety of information about down town, tours and brochures about everything you can imagine in Alaska.

Delaney Park Strip The park strip offers continuing entertainment from festivals, tennis courts, volleyball court, softball diamonds and a 1943 vintage train for the kids to play on.

Alaska Railroad Depot Anchorage is home to the Alaska Railroad! The historic depot was built in 1942. It is fun to see and there is an antique train to see and a gift shop.

There are great stores and malls, with the large “5th Avenue Mall” right in the center of everything. This mall is connected to both Nordstroms and JC Penny.

A short bus or cab ride to Earthquake Park would be memorable, too. It is the site of major land shifting during the 1964 earthquake. 

There is a very scenic bike and walking trail called the “Tony Knowles Coastal Trail” which hugs the Cook Inlet short line from downtown 10 miles south ending in Kincaid Park. Any part of the trail is a “mini-vacation!”