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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.

Potter Marsh is Anchorage's best free birding boardwalk — trumpeter swans, Arctic terns, shorebirds, and bald eagles right off the New Seward Highway.