Launched by coordinator Barbara Brown and administered by the Anchorage Park Foundation, Map Your Anchorage is based on a similar New York City effort more than a decade ago called Map Your Manhattan.

“People are used to looking at wall maps, not globes ... to be here.” Since Anchorage is less than 10 hours' flight time from the majority of the industrial world, Prokop argued that ...

But don't expect swimsuit weather; Anchorage's position on the map means a temperate climate, with temperatures between June and August hovering in the mid-60s. Autumn brings cooler temperatures ...