Alaska encompasses an area one-fifth the size of the continental United States, and has 3,000 rivers, 3 million lakes, 19 mountains higher than 14,000 feet, and more than 5,000 glaciers. It’s a wonderful place for outdoor adventures, and is well supplied with a wide variety of affordable homestay bed and breakfasts, as well as extraordinary wilderness lodges. Give yourself lots of time to explore it all, from the lush rain forest of Southeast Alaska, to the beautiful Kenai Peninsula, to the magnificence of Denali National Park to the Artic reality of Nome and Kotzebue.