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In reply to the discussion: Most beautiful place in the world, to you ? [View all]Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Southcentral where I live is also really beautiful but different from Southeast. The advantage to coming up here is that you can rent a car and drive around, up to Fairbanks if you want, or down to Homer or Seward. It's just a little more accessible. Or a lot more accessible, actually.
The thing that's strange about Alaska is that there really aren't many roads at all, so unless you've got the big bucks to fly out to western Alaska, you're pretty well limited to what we call the Railbelt, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Seward, Homer. There are only two routes to Fairbanks from Anchorage, but if you do the loop, you'll see some really incredible scenery.
My best advice to you would be to make another trip.
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Ed. We're flying out to Nome, which is extreme northwest, this weekend for the end of the Iditarod. I'll be posting a link to my photos later. You might want to check them out. I should have them up by the end of this month.