Alaska wildlife viewing

Your moose watching guide for Anchorage — top spots in the city and on trails, plus calving season safety tips and the best times of day to look.

Alaska is famous for bears, salmon, and glaciers — but for most visitors, the wildlife encounter they remember longest is the moose. An estimated 250–350 moose live within Anchorage city limits...

Palmer Hay Flats hosts thousands of sandhill cranes each fall and dense moose year-round — all viewable from the roadside near Palmer, Alaska.

Potter Marsh's free 1,500-foot boardwalk offers some of Alaska's best birding — Arctic terns, trumpeter swans, and 130+ species just south of Anchorage.