Entry Points:

Anchorage Overlook	Westchester Lagoon	Downtown Anchorage
Coastal Trail	Potter Valley Road

About Anchorage

Settlers arrived in Anchorage in 1915 in anticipation of finding employment in the construction of the Alaska Railroad. A city of tents grew along Ship Creek during the first summer, but the permanent city was built on a nearby bluff where downtown Anchorage now stands. The land was surveyed and auctioned by government officials.

The trains first ran in 1917, and the planned 478 miles from Seward to Fairbanks were completed in 1923, opening up the mineral-rich interior of Alaska for development.

In World War II, Anchorage's value as a military base was recognized, and its continuing importance has been an important contributor to the local economy ever since.

Anchorage is located on a peninsula jutting into the Cook inlet. Two arms of the ocean extend to the southeast (the Turnagain Arm) and northeast (The Knik Arm) from this point. Steep mountain sides, carved by glaciers, flank both sides of the Turnagain Arm, while the Knik Arm passes through the Matanuska Valley. Glacial silt and rock was deposited here at near sea-level to form the land where Anchorage now sits.

Captain James Cook is credited with the discovery of Anchorage and naming the "River Turnagain" in 1778.

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O'Malley Road Old Seward Highway P Street Pine Street Potter Marsh Potter Valley Road Primrose Street Prospect Drive Rabbit Creek Road Rudakof Street Russian Jack Springs S Street Scenic Way Second Avenue Seventh Avenue Seward Highway Ship Creek Trail Ship Creek Sideorof Lane Siderof Lane Sitka Sixteenth Avenue Sixth Avenue Slalom Drive Snowline Drive Specking Avenue Sundown Court Sunrise Street Sunview Drive Tenth Avenue Coastal Trail Third Avenue Thirteenth Avenue Thirteenth Street Tradewind Drive Tudor Road Turnagain way Twelfth Avenue Upper O'Malley Drive Valarian Street Venus Way Virginia Court Vosikof Place Warehouse Avenue Westchester Lagoon Wintergreen Street