Talkeetna, AK Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A hundred miles north of Anchorage, TALKEETNA has a palpable small-town Alaska feel: rumor has it that this eclectic hamlet was the model for Cicely in TV's Northern Exposure , but to its credit Talkeetna doesn't use this as tour-bus bait. The town is lent an international flavor by the world's mountaineers, who come here to scale the 20,320-foot Mount McKinley , which in Alaska is usually referred to by its original Athabascan name of Denali , "the Great One." Whatever you choose to call it, North America's highest mountain rises from 2000ft lowlands, making it the world's … more »