Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Alaska
Detourmap lists 334 places in Alaska, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Denali. 183 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 334
- Oldest
- Old Sitka 1799
- Little known
- 183 of 334
- Share of United States
- 8%
Alaska 334
The 120 best known of 334. The other 214 are on the map and on the United States pages.
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3.Denali National Park and Preserve
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
National park and preserve in Alaska, USA
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4.Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
National park of the United States
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6.Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
National park of the United States
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7.Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
Largest United States national park and national preserve in south-central Alaska
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12.Katmai National Park and Preserve
Nature · 20th century · Notable
United States National Park and Preserve in southern Alaska
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23.Kobuk Valley National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in northwestern Alaska, USA
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32.Mount Fairweather
Nature · Notable
Mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains on the border between Alaska and British Columbia
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54.Chisana
Archaeological · Notable
Human settlement in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States of America
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58.Mount Churchill
Nature · Notable
Volcano in the Saint Elias Mountains and the Wrangell Volcanic Field of eastern Alaska
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62.Hubbard Glacier
Nature · Notable
Glacier extending from Yukon, Canada, to its terminus in Yakutat Bay, Alaska
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63.Yunaska Island
Nature · Notable
Volcanic island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
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73.Kasatochi Island
Nature · Notable
Active stratovolcano and one of the Andreanof Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska
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76.Loring
Archaeological · Notable
Human settlement in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States of America
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87.Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
Nature · Notable
Valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States
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116.Devils Thumb
Nature · Notable
Mountain in the Stikine Icecap region of the Alaska–British Columbia border, near Petersburg
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118.Ulak Island
Nature · Notable
Island in the Delarof Islands in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
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119.Little Sitkin Island
Nature · Notable
Island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Alaska?
Denali. Highest mountain in North America, located in Alaska. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Alaska?
334: 299 nature & landscapes and 35 archaeological & historic sites. 183 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Alaska?
Old Sitka, dated to 1799. 31 of the 334 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Alaska here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Alaska if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Alaska is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.