Alaska - - The Last Frontier

The first peoples call it "the Great Land." A place of soaring peaks, sweeping landscapes, and mighty rivers. Everything in Alaska seems larger than life.

It is the Last Frontier.

Alaska isn't just a place you visit, it's a feeling you experience and remember for a lifetime. No wonder people say once you've gone to Alaska, you never come all the way back.

Alaska is a land of almost unimaginable scale. Stretching across 586,000 square miles of untamed wilderness, Alaska is one-fifth the size of the contiguous United States. It contains the tallest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley, which many Alaskans simply call Denali ("great mountain"). And of course, the Land of the Midnight Sun has longer summer days than any other state. This majestic landscape borders two oceans and three seas, with a 47,300 mile coastline.

Alaska boasts over three million lakes, 3,000 rivers, 1,800 islands, and more than 100,000 glaciers.

Alaska is so big it encompasses dozens of ecosystems. In a place of such enormous variety; don't be surprised to find the unusual - like a desert of sand dunes in Kobuk Valley National Park.

Some sites in the state boast snow and ice year-round, even when temperatures soar to 80 F. Glacial ice has been here since the dawn of time, and even the endless summer sunshine has little effect.

People come from around the world to view Alaska's northern lights, the aurora borealis. One of nature's most inspiring sights, the northern lights appear most often on cold, clear nights from late August through April. Created by the earth's magnetic field, these curtains of yellow, green and red light dance silently across the sky.

Many people think summer is the only time to visit Alaska - and the long, warm days are unspeakably beautiful. But so are the crisp blue skies above a blanket of white in winter. Or the trembling golden leaves of autumn. And meadows painted with the wildflowers of spring are a sight never forgotten.

Seward, Alaska - Our beloved home

Seward is a seacoast town 128 miles south of Anchorage. The town is reached by paved seashore-and-mountain highway. Abrupt mountain slopes cloaked in shaggy summer greens and perpetual snows form an impressive backdrop for this progressive city of some 4,000 people.

Seward and its surroundings comprise a land of memorable beauty -- saltwater bays, blue glaciers, majestic mountains and alpine valleys. Located on the Kenai Peninsula at the head of Resurrection Bay, the city is one of Alaska's oldest communities, and also one of the most scenic.

P.O. Box 149
Seward, Alaska 99664
907.224.7313
907.224.2343 [fax]
sweetdarlings@gci.net