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The best time to see the northern lights in Alaska. ... Talkeetna sits about 115 miles north of Anchorage in south-central Alaska, at the base of Denali, the tallest mountain peak in North America.

Northern lights photography courses generally run from October to April, with some exception. Private classes are three to four hours long and cost $400 per person. Tips for capturing the northern ...

Our journey starts in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, which is by the sea and surrounded by mountains. We are heading to Fairbanks, 400km south of the Arctic Circle in the Alaska Interior in ...

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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — For newlyweds Jun and Chisako Shibata, the perfect honeymoon meant standing on a steep Alaska mountain in the freezing darkness, gazing at the dancing lights in the sky ...

The natural features (trees, mountains, unobstructed sky) dwarf the bread crumbs of civilization, ... His one wish was to see the northern lights, and Alaska complied. Nature does as nature wants.

"The Northern Lights in Alaska," reads the Nov. 9 post shared to a Facebook group called "Planet Earth." The post, which purports to show an image of the lights above a mountain range, gathered ...

In the meantime, I drove out for a lunch with some Mat-Su travel people at Sheep Mountain Lodge. It’s about 100 miles from Anchorage on the way to Glennallen.