(free itinerary planning, restaurants, and shops)

One of our more popular recommended mobile apps; the official mobile guide to Alaska’s best places.  Powered by Alaska.org, The Alaska App is your ultimate interactive Alaskan discovery guide, whether you’re planning your first trip to Alaska, or to live here.

Plan Your Trip  –  Expert advice like when is the best time to visit Alaska?  what are the must sees?  how many days do you need for your trip?  what do you do if you encounter a bear or moose?  and much more.

Like A Local  –  Hidden Gems (the best glaciers, mountains, parks, trails, scenic viewpoints, ghost towns, and wildlife viewing spots only Locals know about).  Outdoor Recreation (a comprehensive list of Alaska’s public use cabins, RV parks, campgrounds, and trails).  Dining (best restaurants, pubs, breweries, and coffee shops).  Local Knowledge (listen to bush pilots, park rangers, and wilderness guides tell you about their favorite places in our audio guides).  Videos (100+ videos, produced by us, showcasing Alaska’s top destinations and tours).

(road conditions, accidents, and delays w/map)

The Alaska 511 app provides travelers with state-wide traffic and road condition reporting, covering major highways in Anchorage, Delta Junction, Fairbanks, Glennallen, Haines/Skagway, Juneau, Kenai, Tok, Wasilla/Palmer, Valdez and more.

Providing a user-friendly map based interface, the simple navigation through the app’s features creates a seamless travel experience for users. Utilizing GPS location, the app presents traffic information from the user’s current location.

Keeping you updated, with our recommended mobile apps.

(built-in compass, general campsite information)

Find the best places to go camping in the state.  Look no further.  We’ve compiled a list of campgrounds and RV parks in the State of Alaska.

Campgrounds and RV parks Map makes it easy to find campground, RV parks, and RV resorts across the state and near you.

Camping is a great way to experience natural beauty, so explore campgrounds and RV parks on our map.  Explore in the state by location and name, with campground location, address, coordinates, search, map, and GPS directions and more map functionality to have fun with.  Add new camps to map with photos, or add campers favorites and have great trips for the perfect camping.  One of our best recommended mobile apps for locating Alaska’s most popular campgrounds.

(forecast of Aurora, functional, easy-to-use)

The Aurora Forecast app is the best app for seeing the Northern Lights.  Built with a sleek dark design, it appeals to both tourists and serious aurora watchers by telling you what you want to know – whether that is exactly how likely you are to see the aurora borealis or details about the solar winds and high-resolution sun imagery.  With this app, you’ll be seeing the Northern Lights in no time.

• Find the current KP index and how likely you are to see the Northern Lights in the United States or the rest of the world
• View a list of the best locations to view from right now
• Map showing how strong the aurora is around the world, based on the SWPC ovation auroral forecast
• Free push notifications when auroral activity is expected to be high
• Forecasts for the next hour, several hours, and several weeks so you can plan your Northern Lights viewing long in advance (subject to weather conditions)
• Solar wind statistics and sun imagery
• Tour information so if you’re considering to go to locations such as Iceland, Sweden, Finland, or even Alaska or Canada, you’ll be able to find tours that we can recommend for you

(Alaska outdoor guide)

Be prepared for your adventure without WiFi or mobile service.  Download Alaska maps for national parks, national monuments, and state parks before you hike.  Plan your next trip to one of the great Alaskan parks.  Download maps and guides before you venture in the WiFi free wilderness.

This pocket maps app comes with more than 160 neatly folded Alaska national park maps, national monument maps, state park maps, and maps of other great destinations.  Contains motor vehicle use maps (MVUM), motor vehicle travel maps (MVTM) and visitor maps for all Alaska national forests.

• Download maps, park brochures, and newspapers.  These downloads are ready when you are offline and off the grid in the great outdoors.
• Download arbitrary map sections as offline packs.
• GPS and GPX support; record your hikes, import GPX routes, tracks and waypoints for your hiking trails.
• Open your favorite maps app to get a route to the selected park.
• Current weather conditions, easy access to multi-day forecasts, sunrise and sunset times.
• Photo galleries, panorama views.
• Push notifications for park alerts, park news, weather warnings.
• Share links to parks and maps with friends.

(Anchorage’s daily newspaper)

Alaskan news at your fingertips, with every article and picture intact, just as you would read in the printed newspaper edition of The Anchorage Daily News.

ADN e-Edition includes:

• Local in-depth coverage of Anchorage and Alaska from the Anchorage Daily News newsroom
• Entertainment with the latest on movies, music, dining, and other great stuff to see and do
• On-the-money Business news, an all-star Sports and Outdoor section, and much more
• Razor-sharp views of every word, photo, and image as it appears in print
• All content delivered in a fats, simple interface with multiple viewing modes