Alaska Botanical Garden
Botanical garden in the northern forest, showing over a thousand cold-hardy perennials, a rock garden and native plant trails.
The garden covers about 44 hectares and preserves large stands of white birch and spruce. Carefully tended herb, rock and perennial gardens display more than a thousand plants that thrive in subarctic conditions, and the long summer daylight makes the flowers particularly vivid. A natural trail of about 1.6 km winds through the woods to Campbell Creek, where salmon can be seen in autumn. Admission is around a dozen US dollars, and it makes a relaxed half-day outing in summer.
Opening hours
Summer about 9am–7pm
Nearby sights
- Alaska Native Heritage Center
- Potter Marsh
- Flattop Mountain
- Anchorage Museum
- Tony Knowles Coastal Trail
- Beluga Point
- Alaska Aviation Museum
- Lake Hood Seaplane Base