Where is the best scenery and most peaceful place in Alaska?|195587

Might be living there eventually... (No LARGE cities please)

Denali is beautiful. I just took the trip for the first time a few weeks ago. It_s relaxing and very calming to see all of the beautiful scenery that the park has to offer. Portage Glacier is also very exquisite and a nice thing to see if you_ve never seen it before.


Military Bases:
Eielson Air Force Base - southeast of Fairbanks
Elmendorf Air Force Base - Anchorage Army Posts
Fort Richardson - Anchorage
Fort Wainwright - Fairbanks

Well it depends on what you see as large. But the nice thing about AK is that you can live outside the city easily. I live in Fairbanks, and most of the population in either on base or outside of Ak. there is also delta, takes less than five min to drive through. All throughout AK there is beautiful scenery, when its really clear you can see Denali and it beautiful, in the winter there are the stars that are SO BRIGHT and the moon gets very big and bright and of course there is the Aurora.

Best scenery depends on what you like. If you like a maritime climate and the sea, then live somewhere on the Kenai Peninsula...not really any big cities there. If you like a more continental climate with bigger mountains (but more extreme temps) you could live in Talkeetna. For a balance of the two, and to be nearer to a big city (but not in one) you could live in the Mat-Su Valley northeast of Anchorage (that is where I am planning on living in a few years).

As for military bases, there are Elmendorf (Air Force) and Richardson (Army) in Anchorage, and there are Eielson (Air Force) and Wainwright (Army) outside Fairbanks.

Well the others have mentioned the air force and army bases. We also have 2 coast guard stations (one in Kodiak and one in Sitka). There are also smaller posts here and there too. Now I live in Anchorage and find it lovely. However if I want to leave town to go camping and what not I can either go south along the Seward highway, and within 10 miles see nothing but the highway, the water and the mountains. or one of my favorites is to head north and then east towards Tok. Stopping in the mountains and camping. In the fall watching all the changing colors and going berry picking (yes, I do bring a gun as bears are out looking for berries too). Just listening to the birds and nature. A few years ago my grandmother from Tennessee came up. we came across a field of purpley-pink fireweed just covering this field. She thought it would make a wonderful picture to take home and asked us grandkids to go stand in it. We got there and disappeared, the plants were like cornstalks. She loved that photo.
that is the thing about even Alaska_s largest city, 15 minutes you can be in wilderness. Even from downtown