The Hotel Captain Cook
Downtown
Three towers, teak paneling throughout, and an Anchorage institution since 1965. The top-floor bar has the best view in the city.
ANC · Alaska
Nonstop into Anchorage, AK
32 U.S. airports fly here without a layover, grouped by how long you'd be in the air.
Anchorage holds about forty percent of Alaska's population on a strip of flat land between an inlet and a mountain range, which means moose walk through neighborhoods and nobody finds it worth mentioning. It is not a beautiful city. It is an extremely useful one.
Most people treat it as a staging post for Denali, Seward or a cruise, and that is fair. But the Chugach range begins at the eastern edge of town, and you can be above the treeline forty minutes after leaving your hotel.
June and July give you nineteen hours of daylight. September brings the colors and the aurora returns. Winter is dark, cold and much cheaper, and the northern lights are the reason to accept all three.
32 of 32 nonstop routes
Leave after work
Under 2 hours12 citysKenai, AK
ENA · Kenai Municipal Airport
27m
Many flights a day
Grant Aviation, Via Airlines
Fairbanks, AK
FAI · Fairbanks International Airport
45m
Many flights a day
Alaska
Juneau, AK
JNU · Juneau International Airport
1h 26m
About 3 flights a day
Alaska
Bethel, AK
BET · Bethel Airport
59m
About 2 flights a day
Alaska
Kodiak, AK
ADQ · Kodiak Airport
43m
About 2 flights a day
Alaska
Nome, AK
OME · Nome Airport
1h 16m
About one a day
Alaska
Kotzebue, AK
OTZ · Ralph Wien Memorial Airport
1h 17m
About one a day
Alaska
King Salmon, AK
AKN · King Salmon Airport
50m
About one a day
Alaska, Via Airlines
Deadhorse, AK
SCC · Deadhorse Airport
1h 26m
About one a day
Alaska
Dillingham, AK
DLG · Dillingham Airport
53m
About one a day
Alaska
Utqiaġvik, AK
BRW · Wiley Post Will Rogers Memorial Airport
1h 36m
About one a day
Alaska
Cordova, AK
CDV · Merle K (Mudhole) Smith Airport
36m
About one a day
Alaska
Easy weekend
2 to 3 hours0 citysNothing lands in this window from here right now.
Long weekend
3 to 5 hours5 citysSeattle, WA
SEA · Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
3h 13m
Many flights a day
Alaska, Delta
Portland, OR
PDX · Portland International Airport
3h 27m
About 5 flights a day
Alaska
San Francisco, CA
SFO · San Francisco International Airport
4h 17m
About one a day
Alaska, United
SeasonalNonstops out of SFO →Salt Lake City, UT
SLC · Salt Lake City International Airport
4h 25m
6 flights a week
Delta, Alaska
SeasonalNonstops out of SLC →Las Vegas, NV
LAS · Harry Reid International Airport
4h 58m
3 flights a week
Alaska, Southwest
Worth the extra days
5 hours and up15 citysMinneapolis, MN
MSP · Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field
5h 27m
About 2 flights a day
Delta, Sun Country, Alaska
Chicago, IL
ORD · Chicago O'Hare International Airport
6h 6m
About 2 flights a day
United, Alaska, American
Denver, CO
DEN · Denver International Airport
5h 10m
About one a day
United, Alaska
Honolulu, Oahu, HI
HNL · Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
5h 30m
About one a day
Alaska
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
DFW · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
6h 26m
About one a day
American
Phoenix, AZ
PHX · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
5h 24m
About one a day
Alaska
Los Angeles, CA
LAX · Los Angeles International Airport
5h
About one a day
Alaska, Delta
Houston, TX
IAH · George Bush Intercontinental Airport
6h 49m
6 flights a week
United
SeasonalNonstops out of IAH →New York, NY
JFK · John F. Kennedy International Airport
7h 13m
5 flights a week
Alaska
SeasonalNonstops out of JFK →Dulles, VA
IAD · Washington Dulles International Airport
7h 7m
5 flights a week
United
SeasonalNonstops out of IAD →Detroit, MI
DTW · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
6h 20m
5 flights a week
Delta, Alaska
SeasonalNonstops out of DTW →Newark, NJ
EWR · Newark Liberty International Airport
7h 9m
5 flights a week
United
SeasonalNonstops out of EWR →Atlanta, GA
ATL · Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport
7h 8m
3 flights a week
Kailua-Kona, HI
KOA · Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole
5h 38m
2 flights a week
Alaska
SeasonalNonstops out of KOA →Maui, HI
OGG · Kahului International Airport
5h 33m
A couple of flights a week
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Nonstop route data from the U.S. Department of Transportation (BTS T-100), covering 2025-06..2026-05, last updated 2026-09-02. Domestic routes only. Airlines change schedules, so an advisor confirms before you book.
In Anchorage
Where to stay
Alyeska Resort
Girdwood
Forty minutes south along Turnagain Arm, at the foot of a ski mountain with an aerial tram and a Nordic spa. Better than anything in the city itself.
The Lakefront Anchorage
Lake Hood
On the busiest floatplane base in the world, so the view from the bar is aircraft taking off from water all evening.
What to do
The Alaska Railroad
The Coastal Classic to Seward runs four and a half hours through country with no road beside it. Book the dome car and plan nothing else that day.
Turnagain Arm
The Seward Highway runs along a fjord with beluga whales, bore tides and sheer rock on the far side. An hour's drive that people routinely rate above wherever they were driving to.
Flattop Mountain
The most climbed peak in Alaska, twenty minutes from downtown and about ninety minutes up. The whole city and the inlet laid out beneath you.
Anchorage Museum
Larger and better than the city implies, with a serious Alaska Native collection held jointly with the Smithsonian.
Where to eat
49th State Brewing
The downtown location, The Rail, sits by the railroad depot. Game meats on the menu and a roof deck facing the inlet.
A reindeer sausage cart
On a downtown street corner from about ten in the morning. Onions, mustard, a few dollars, and far better than it has any right to be.
Halibut over king crab
A good deal of the king crab on Alaskan menus is imported. Halibut, black cod and salmon are landed here. Order those instead.
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